Lesson 5: Constructing and using Responses

Lesson 4
Lesson 6
Contents
  • The new server
  • Exercise 1: Construct a response
  • Response-constructing functions
    • Status line
    • Content type
    • Content length
    • Message body
  • Exercise 2: Use the functions
Video
  • 5 minutes
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In lesson 4, we wrote a function for encoding our abstract representation of a Response as a byte string suitable for transmission over a network according to the HTTP protocol.

encodeResponse :: Response -> BSB.Builder

Now we can rewrite our server so that the HTTP response it sends is constructed from a value of the Response type.

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