Secure HTTP Responses
Upon receiving a Secure HTTP request, the Web server will unwrap the HTTP request, generate its HTTP response, and use a similar technique to protect the response. The following example shows a possible reply to the previous Secure HTTP request:
Secure-HTTP/1.4 200 OK Content-Type: message/http Content-Privacy-Domain: CMS (content is encrypted)
Here is the response shown in decrypted format for your convenience:
Secure-HTTP/1.4 200 OK Content-Type: message/http Content-Privacy-Domain: CMS HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 12:34:56 GMT Security-Scheme: S-HTTP/1.4 Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 35 <html> Secure HTTP Response </html>
The HTTP message in this example is as follows:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, ...
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