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+4  Q: 

What is a request-response pair called?

For example in HTTP you send a request and receive a response; is there a noun that describes that request-response pair?

I'd thought of "dialog" or "conversation" however those imply multiple request-response pairs, whereas I'm looking for a word that indicates exactly one.

The reason for asking is that I need to name an object which encapsulates the details of both, and RequestResponse seems fairly lame.

+7  A: 

How about "exchange"?

David M  2009-06-24 16:41:50
According to this previous question (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/325346/name-for-http-requestresponse), that's what the spec uses.
bbrown  2009-06-24 16:54:29
+3  A: 

I'd use Message or Transaction

Kai  2009-06-24 16:42:33
+6  A: 

RequestResponsePair sounds like it does exactly what it says. And that's invaluable, I find.

Brian Agnew  2009-06-24 16:43:25
I like this one the most. +1
Yuval A  2009-06-24 16:50:02
A: 

what about RequestResponseContext?

dfa  2009-06-24 16:43:47
Every abstraction is a paradigm!
rp  2009-06-24 16:46:29
I read that sentence much differently. "Request/response" modifies "paradigm", they are not synonyms.
rkb  2009-06-24 16:47:30
Is it just me or didn't this answer get changed substantially from when it was first entered?
rp  2009-06-25 05:15:31
A: 

Interaction

natas  2009-06-24 16:44:40
+2  A: 

I would say HttpTransaction as it (somewhat) implies bidirectional activity.

John Rasch  2009-06-24 16:46:55
+1  A: 

Fiddler calls it a Session.

Ian Boyd  2009-06-24 16:52:03
Session works pretty well, but it has the minor downside that some may assume that it has something to do with "session cookies" or related technologies.Transaction seems like a fine name, except that Transaction implies that HTTP traffic is somehow transactional (with rollback, etc) which it's not.
EricLaw -MSFT-  2009-06-24 17:01:25
i do't know what the OP's usage will be. But i use Fiddler quite a bit, and i've never had any problem with the term "session". In fact, it was so transparent (since it's just a term for that request-response pair) that had to load Fiddler to see what they called it, if anything.
Ian Boyd  2009-06-24 22:43:33
Hey, wait a minute....Eric Lawrence...Fiddler
Ian Boyd  2009-06-24 22:46:31
A: 

Transceival or ServiceCall might work.

Andrew  2009-06-24 16:54:29
A: 

HttpRoundTrip - inspired by Jeff Atwood in this blog post

John Rasch  2009-06-26 20:30:25
A: 

OR uses "communication" for the request/response couple.

serialseb  2010-01-26 17:25:44

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