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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Tips on technology for one program, many concurrent http clients on small host?
What technology could be used for one application to serve many simultaneous users on a small resource-constrained host (eg: Rasbperry Pi or similar)?
That is, it doesn't need a general purpose web server like Apache, as it would only need to…
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HTTP request via proxy on AWS server fails with 407
I'm trying to send an http request using the requests library through a proxy from a new aws server. I've allowed all traffic inbound/outbound in the security settings.
urllib3.exceptions.ProxyError: ('Cannot connect to proxy.', error('Tunnel…
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A particular sub-domain in a virtual host is not redirecting, but others succed
I like my website to be accessible by example.org or https://example.org not www.example.org.
So I want http://www.example.org to redirect to http://example.org and http://www.example.org to https://example.org.
But an interesting thing…
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Can Apache be configured to require authentication based on the query string?
I've configured basic Apache authentication for certain areas of a website that only administrators should have access to. Most web applications make this convenient by putting their admin pages in a subdirectory, so I configure authentication for…
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Warm the cache but don’t raise too many DNS requests
I have a website with over a million pages served from a varnish cache that sits behind nginx and every day I run a cron to invalidate all the pages (Don’t ask me why, it's complicated…).
The website is behind Cloudflare and I am charged per DNS…
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Can't redirect http:// to https:// via nginx
Good day everybody,
I have set up an Nginx Webserver on an Ubuntu instance.
I have configured the /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default file like this:
server {
listen 80; #listen IPv4
listen…
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Redirect http to https but exclude some
I'm using nginx and I want to know if it's possible to do this.
Now to manage my vhost, I create them separately in /etc/nginx/sites-available (activate them after)
mydomain.com
subdomain.mydomain.com
subdomain1.mydomain.com
anotherdomain.com
So to…
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Having trouble on IIS When Downloading Files from Mobile
I have an iOS App that downloads files from my server. Recently I upgraded my server from Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2016. After upgrading suddenly my iOS App started to have trouble downloading files from the new server.
While upgrading…
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Accessing an internal page from an internal system using the external network?
I am kinda new to this. I am setting up a Zabbix web-check for an internal service. But the URL needs to be hit from outside the internal network to get the right output. I do not want to have to set up VPN stuff, ideally. What are my options in…
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HTTP Error -5 occured when trying to download Views (WAMP)
Can anyone explain to me what HTTP error -5 is? I get this error message every time I try to update or download a module in my Drupal 7 site locally. For example:
HTTP error -5 occurred when trying to fetch…
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Relay HTTP requests to multiple web server
We have our web server cluster in the AWS's US-WEST-2 region reading/writing to Postgres RDS in the same region. As per AWS's SLA a region can be down for 22 mins in a month.
To mitigate this downtime of 22 min when ever it happens. I am setting up…
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Which worth it to use first? Load balance or HTTP cache server?
We have a web application that we are about to take live. But I have a fear that the server won't be able to handle all the requests and it won't be as comfortable to the users as a website should be. Currently I'm thinking about using 2 things. One…
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Nginx "Address already in use" if backlog is specified
I am running
nginx version: nginx/1.10.2
I want to tune up my default configuration. According to https://www.nginx.com/blog/tuning-nginx/ I changed the somaxconn parameter in the OS and specified the same in nginx.conf
So my nginx.conf reads like…
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Nginx front apache then
I had only owncloud running (http and https with apache2) in my network, but now I want host another website.
https was working without warning "Your connection is not secure"
So for this I have installed another server with nginx on which I want to…
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Disable Range header on Google Cloud Bucket
I am serving what is essentially gifv files. I've noticed is doing multiple requests to retrieve video in chunks.
I have hunch that it would be better performance for users if video's were served at once, rather than doing multiple requests.
I…
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