HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol and is the protocol used to transfer information around the World Wide Web.
HTTP is just one communications protocol on the web. Others include:
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How to enable all HTTP methods in an Apache HTTP Server
How can I enable the handling of all HTTP methods as defined in RFC 2616 on Apache web server ? These would be:
OPTIONS
GET
HEAD
POST
PUT
DELETE
TRACE
CONNECT
I am using the Apache HTTP Server, version 2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
Here is my .htaccess…
MatandDie
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Returning "200 OK" in Apache on HTTP OPTIONS requests
I'm attempting to implement cross-domain HTTP access control without touching any code.
I've got my Apache(2) server returning the correct Access Control headers with this block:
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
Header…
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Referer is passed from HTTPS to HTTP in some cases... How?
In theory browsers do not pass on referer information from HTTPS to HTTP sites. And in my experience this has always been true. But I just found an exception, and I want to understand why it works so I can use it as well.
Search for "what is my…
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Highly-available, Web-accessible and scalable deployment of statsd and graphite
I'd like to setup statsd/graphite so that I can log JS apps running on HTML devices (ie. not in a contained LAN environment, and possibly with a large volume of incoming data that I don't directly control).
My constraints:
entry point must speak…
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mod_security block requests by http-host header
The last few days I noticed some servers being hammered with unknown requests.
Most of them are like the following:
60.246.*.* - - [03/Jan/2015:20:59:16 +0200] "GET…
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nginx Request line too large
I'm getting the error:
Bad Request
Request Line is too large (6060 > 4094)
When I access the a specific url on my server like this:
/api/categorize?packages=package1,package2,...packageN
On nginx.conf I have:
large_client_header_buffers 8…
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Google SPDY - Has anyone used it on Apache?
Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with Google SPDY on Apache? http://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/
I run a couple of web servers and am interested to know if there have been any issues with the mod_spdy Apache module and if anyone has…
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How to pass $_GET variables to a PHP script via the command line?
I am trying to create a webserver that serves PHP scripts. Currently, it works as follows:
The client requests /index.php?test=value
The server invokes php index.php
The server feeds the HTTP request headers as STDIN to the PHP process
The server…
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CDN: How is it possible that my DNS delivers a different IP depending on the visitors location?
I found this explanation how a CDN works. But there is one thing I don't really understand. Let's assume I setup multiple DNS servers at my location and they use the nameserver domains dns1.example.com, dns2.example.com and dns3.example.com. This…
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Under HTTP2, how often are new TCP connections initiated?
I understand that HTTP2 aims to keep everything under a single TCP connection, and I was wondering how often TCP connections would be torn down.
For example, if I visit youtube, do some browsing, leave the site, and come back, will I be re-using the…
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HTTP Compression on IIS 6.0 (Windows Server 2003)
There are many things you have to do/consider when you want to enable HTTP compression on IIS 6.0 (Windows Server 2003).
Can somebody please provide a comprehensive list of the actions you have to take in order to enable HTTP compression properly?
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How to redirect HTTP to HTTPS on AWS Application Load Balancer?
Our website needs HIPAA compliance so everything needs to be encrypted. I don't want client to get an error message when they put in "http://mysite.com", so I need to support both HTTP and HTTPS, and redirect HTTP to HTTPS. Am I right?
I did it…
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Running an API, if I correct a content-type header will that break things for customers?
We're running an API with quite a few people using it. Due to some legacy clumsiness on my part, one of the endpoints is returning the wrong content-type header, js when it should be json. My question is, if we fix this by swapping to return the…
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What HTTP status should I return during temporary site outage/downtime?
I'm going to be taking down my website for an upgrade to the code. I'd like to have a temporary downtime page display during the upgrade. For the sake of preventing issues with bots attempting to spider my site during the downtime, what HTTP…
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Nginx multiple roots
I'd like to divert off requests to a particular sub-directory, to another root location. How? My existing block is:
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.domain.com;
location / {
root /home/me/Documents/site1;
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