HTTP Request

http_request

The HTTP Request object represents the attributes of a request made to a web server. It encapsulates the details and metadata associated with an HTTP request, including the request method, headers, URL, query parameters, body content, and other relevant information.

Attributes

Caption	Name	Type	Description
HTTP Arguments	`args`	String	The arguments sent along with the HTTP request.
Request Body Length	`body_length`	Integer	The actual length of the HTTP request body, in number of bytes, independent of a potentially existing Content-Length header.
HTTP Headers	`http_headers`	HTTP Header[]	Additional HTTP headers of an HTTP request or response.
HTTP Method	`http_method`	String	The HTTP request method indicates the desired action to be performed for a given resource. `CONNECT`: Connect (`CONNECT`) `DELETE`: Delete (`DELETE`) `GET`: Get (`GET`) `HEAD`: Head (`HEAD`) `OPTIONS`: Options (`OPTIONS`) `POST`: Post (`POST`) `PUT`: Put (`PUT`) `TRACE`: Trace (`TRACE`)
Request Length	`length`	Integer	The length of the entire HTTP request, in number of bytes.
Raw Data	`raw_data`	JSON	Group:`context` The event data as received from the event source.
Record ID	`record_id`	String	Group:`primary` Unique identifier for the object
HTTP Referrer	`referrer`	String	The request header that identifies the address of the previous web page, which is linked to the current web page or resource being requested.
Unique ID	`uid`	String	The unique identifier of the http request.
Unmapped	`unmapped`	Unmapped[]	Data from the source that was not mapped into the schema.
URL	`url`	Uniform Resource Locator[]	Entity:`UNIFORM_RESOURCE_LOCATOR` The URL object that pertains to the request.
HTTP User-Agent	`user_agent`	String	Entity:`HTTP_USER_AGENT` The request header that identifies the operating system and web browser.
HTTP Version	`version`	String	The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) version.
X-Forwarded-For	`x_forwarded_for`	IP Address[]	Entity:`IP_ADDRESS` The X-Forwarded-For header identifying the originating IP address(es) of a client connecting to a web server through an HTTP proxy or a load balancer.

Relationships

Inbound Relationships

These objects and events reference HTTP Request in their attributes:

Outbound Relationships

HTTP Request references the following objects and events in its attributes:

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