Name for HTTP Request+Response

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 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.

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