What exactly is an HTTP Entity?

Question

Would someone please describe to me what exactly an HTTP entity is?

I am reading the HTTPClient documentation, but I do not really understand what t

Answer 1

Latest HTTP 1.1 RFC 7230 has used term Payload instead of Entity. Some old documentation still keep referring the old terminology.

Important practical thing to remember about Entity(Payload) is:

If Transfer-Encoding doesn't exist, Message Body = Entity(Payload) Body.

If Transfer-Encoding exists, Entity(Payload) Body has to be obtained by applying proper decoding and extracting.