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I am integrating digest authentication and am seeing "entity-body" in the document below (for auth-int authentication)? Is this the HTML header and body? Or is it just the HTML header portion?

http://freeradius.org/rfc/rfc4590.html http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2069

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“Entity” is an HTTP concept here. The old HTTP 1.1 glossary defines it as “The information transferred as the payload of a request or response. An entity consists of metainformation in the form of entity-header fields and content in the form of an entity-body, as described in section 7.”

Newer HTTP specifications, such as RFC 9110 HTTP Semantics, do not use the term “entity-body”. Instead, they refer to the “content” of a message.

Thus, the entity body consists, for example, an entire HTML document, from the document type declaration (if present) down to the end tag </html>. The entity headers are HTTP headers, outside the HTML document.

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@AdamJenča it says "it is computed before any transfer encoding is applied by the sender", so should not be the gzipped content?
Sorry for that, English is my second languge. I meant the content the gzip algorithm was applied to, not the actual result of compression.
Came here because I had the same situation and question. The "section 7"-link above points to an outdated/obsolete RFC-2616 document but if one follows the "obsoleted-by"-chain one ends up in an RFC-9110 document which doesn't contain the term "entity-body" at all. :-( Any somewhat up-to-date explanation or reference of the term "entity-body" anyone?

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