101 Switching Protocols

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The HTTP 101 Switching Protocols response code indicates the protocol the server is switching to as requested by a client which sent the message including the Upgrade request header.

The server includes in this response an Upgrade response header to indicate the protocol it switched to. The process is described in detail in the article Protocol upgrade mechanism.

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101 Switching Protocols

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Switching protocols might be used with WebSockets.

HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols
Upgrade: websocket 
Connection: Upgrade

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Specification	Title
RFC 7231, section 6.2.2: 101 Switching Protocol	Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content

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Last updated by: lobsterhands, Jun 1, 2018, 3:35:51 PM

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