Questions tagged [http]

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:

  • Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
  • User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
  • Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
  • Post Office Protocol (POP3)
  • File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
  • Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)

HTTP on Wikipedia

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Varnish cache responese with "Set-Cookie" header

I have a page which sends a "Set-Cookie" header for something like the language depending on the URL. The thing is this page will get a fairly high hit rate but it's not an option right now to strip the "Set-Cookie" header so that Varnish 4 will…
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What does an infrastructure that hosts an FTP server with HTTP access look like?

I am wondering about how companies provide access to the same files over FTP and HTTP/HTTPS. What are the different servers involved in setting up such an infrastructure? I am interested, particularly, about if the metadata of the files on an FTP…
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Apache virtual hosts priority

before I created a specific virtual host for my main website the logging in to the main IP address opened the apache default welcome page but after creating this virtual host, the domain.com is working fine but the IP address opens the same contents…
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PHP HTTP Request slow to a particular server

I am making http requests using both curl and file_get_contents. If i make these requests to a particular server, it takes a very long time, sometimes even fails. However, if I make requests to any other site, using the exact same code, the response…
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How to get HResult codes from IIS

I'm facing an 500 HTTP error from IIS (both on Chrome Client and from IIS logs) but I wonder If I can have more details about 500 HTTP error in order to narrow down my issue. I found this article : https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/942031 My…
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weblogic - get http/https connections count

I am looking for way to get http/https (both combined) current active connections count. I am using Weblogic server with multiple Webapps. Usage of count of connections is to send request on 100 connections established on server so other app remind…
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Why was this TCP connection reset during a HTTP transfer?

I have a tcpdump for a HTTP request that I need to analyse. It consists of three connections. First one is established, then another. Then, after ~190 segments the client abruptly closes the first conneciton through a RST flag and starts the third,…
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proper http status to refuse client view image with invalid referrer page

Short version: If I decide to reject access to some URI because a client doesn't supply a valid Referer HTTP header, what http status do I response? Long: Suppose I wrote a blog post with very nice photos. I want my visitors share with their friends…
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Configure GoDaddy when hosting via custom port

I rent a VPS / seedbox that happens to offer http file hosting via nginx. Instead of renting another service to host my website, I've configured my current VPS successfully. The catch is that nginx is assigned a random port above 10000. I rented a…
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Can a HTTP error be cached?

We are using a Twisted HTTP server https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/15.0.0/web/howto/using-twistedweb.html and we are experiencing a strange behavior. This HTTP server serves a static file and in some cases it may returns a 403 to one person…
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Too much HTTP output connect logs

I have about new 100 records per second in syslog, kern.log and debug. All they are similar and look like kernel: [2927191.803601] new HTTP output connect: IN= OUT=venet0 SRC=2a03:f480:0001:0017:0000:0000:0000:00a6…
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Nginx: how to redirect all request from https://domainA.com to https://domainB.com? (and not only http ones)

I have several domain names, and I want redirect all of them to https://indi-ticket.fr I have configured Nginx and all the request from http://other-domain.xx are redirected to htpps://indi-ticket.fr but not these from https://other-domain.xx. Here…
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Simultaneous http requests planning

A development Meteor app runs in a docker container on aws cloud, it accepts user input and makes HTTP requests to 3rd party websites, parses the data and sends back to the user. Apology; my limited understanding of the technology is reflected in…
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how to use rewrite files with lighttpd

I have just installed a new personal Gentoo server (on a VPS at vpsfree.cz by the way) and wanted to try something more lightweight than Apache that I used on my previous Debian based server. I used to generate apache rewrite files from my web tools…
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Apache Load Balance and 503 Response

i have such a enviroment: We have one our own Web server, which comunicates with other software components (creating pdf documents) over http protocol. Such a software component is called a worker. It takes usuallay 3 minutes to prepare a pdf…
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