Name for HTTP Request+Response

Question

There\'s one thing I haven\'t found in rfc 2616 and that\'s a \"canonical\" name for a request/response pair. Is there such thing?

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Answer 1

_{(answer originally taken from a duplicate question)}

• RFC2616 calls it an Exchange.
• Wireshark and HTTPNetworkSniffer call it a Request/Response.
• Fiddler calls it a Session.
• Charles calls it a Sequence.
• HTTP Scoop calls it a Conversation.
• Other vocabulary includes: Message, Transaction, Communication.

I would go for Exchange or RequestResponse.

I also went to name it Operation in my code as I would queue Operations, flush Operations, pause or resume Operations.

Answer 2

Exchanges is nice name, also we can use Connection, Communication or session

Answer 3

The spec calls them "exchanges" (or "request/response exchanges"),

In HTTP/1.0, most implementations used a new connection for each
request/response exchange. In HTTP/1.1, a connection may be used for one or more request/response exchanges.

Answer 4

Transaction, yes, or "A singe HTTP Request consists of one HTTP Request message and one HTTP Response message."