HTTP Stands for "Hyper Text Transfer Protocol", and is the protocol that applications use to access documents/webpages/data from the world wide web.
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Making a site available at http and https after installing an SSL certificate
I just had hostgator install an SSL certificate on my site. As a result, my site is only available (right now) at https://mysite.com. Based on the answer to this question, it sounds like it's possible ...
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Which content or HTTP status should return unused domain?
We've recently bought couple of domains but the content of the domains is still under development.
Which content should we upload to the domains to tell search engines "There is currently nothing, ...
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http://www.example.com/http://www.example.com/ in Apache log?
I run a website, let's say http://www.example.com/. On it I have a path and file, say http://www.example.com/path/file.html. The Apache log lists GET requests like
GET /path/file.html HTTP/1.1
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Google Analytics when 404 handler is used as 'mod_rewrite'?
I'm consulting on a web site which in order to provide clean URL's uses the 404 handler to catch what would otherwise be a 404 and serve the correct content.
In case that's not clear the 404 handler ...
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410 permanent delete not working
I've deleted a web page permanently and also added this rule in the bottom of my .htaccess:
RewriteRule ^paysignet-payment-gateway-features-and-benefits.html$ - [G,L]
But this url of this page: ...
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What is the syntax for using 410 status for deleted pages?
I want to permanently delete some pages in my site using 410 status. I'm not sure of correct syntax of removing pages using 410.
I've found one syntax and I've a page( duplicate product page content) ...
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When to reply 400 Bad Request
According to www.w3.org, a Web server should reply with status code 400 Bad Request if:
"The request could not be understood by the server due
to malformed syntax. The client SHOULD NOT repeat ...
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Is it possible for a web-server to send more files than requested for, and have the browser accept them?
I've created a basic web server for a school project, and it serves static content without a problem.
I thought of having the server parse all htm/html files for links to .js/.css/image files, and ...
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Is there a way to return a response every x seconds or so to a single http request?
I'm wondering if it's possible to send a response every second or so to a single http request. Like for example the client makes an http request, then the server sends a space character every second. ...
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Where does the HTTP referer “applewebdata” come from?
My site uses a web stat service like Google Analytics, it uses a piece of javascript code to log what pages the visitor has visited and the refer url of each visit. I got some referer "applewebdata", ...
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What does WWW do?
To be clear: I am not asking whether or not I should use www in my url, or what the pros and cons are, that topic is well covered. I also wasn't sure if this was a Stack Overflow, Server Fault, or ...
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HTTP: How to be deleted from search engines at a certain point in time in the future?
Is there a way to tell search engines, that a page they crawl should be included in the search results now, but have to be deleted at a certain time in the future?
I have a website where hundreds of ...
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Apache logs: “::1 … ”OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 -
Just looking at logs of a not-so-busy site on one of our Apache servers and notice tons of these in the log:
::1 - - [15/Apr/2011:12:11:40 -0700] "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 -
::1 - - ...
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Quick Filesharing Web-App
I need to provide ftp/http services for a group of users such that:
each user has his own password protected area where he can upload files
each user can create user accounts and passwords for the ...
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Recommendations on how to validate an web server?
Does anyone know of any tools that can be run against web server to determine how compliant the server is with the various HTTP specs?
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Verifying that a user comes from a 'partner' site?
We're building a Drupal module that is going to be given to trusted 'corporate partners'. When a user clicks on a link, he should be redirected to our site as if he's a logged in user.
How should I ...
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Mod Rewrite - directing HTTP/HTTPS traffic to the appropriate virtual hosts
I have an Apache2 web server (v. 2.2.16) running on Debian hosting three virtual hosts. The first two hosts are HTTP only (server1 and server2). The last host is HTTPS only (server3). My virtual host ...
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I used a 301 Permanent Redirect to a 3rd party site by mistake! Can I stop the redirection?
Oh Noes!
I've been parking a domain name for a friend/client of mine on my hosting provider (Dreamhost, FWIW) for a while, and they eventually asked me to redirect their domain to a 3rd party website ...
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Redirect from SSL HTTPS to HTTP (NO SSL)
Many of my visitors have bookmarked my site already with https://mydomain.com. Under the bad advice of a programmer I have put my whole site (Joomla) using SSL.
I do not sell anything or provide any ...
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How to forward a [sub]domain to another address? (not just HTTP!)
I have bought domain1.me from GoDaddy... (yeah, I know... but ME domain registrars seemed quite hard to find...) I'm mainly hosted at 1and1. I have registered subdomain sub1.domain1.me and redirected ...
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Lots of http HEAD requests originating from porn sites
My access log on my web server has a ton of http HEAD requests coming from porn sites.
What are HEAD requests and are they doing something bad with my site?
Here is an excerpt from my log:
(valid ...
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Best way to have both HTTP and HTTPS communication in a web application?
I am considering using both HTTP and HTTPS in a web application and I am looking for tips to accomplish this best. The application will run under Tomcat.
I have also seen the following about HTTPS ...
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WWW.yoursite.com or HTTP://yoursite.com which one is futureproof?
http://yoursite.com
www.yoursite.com
http://www.yoursite.com
yoursite.com
Which of these would you choose as your favourite to work with, if you were to make a site for 2011 and beyond, which ...
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With the following settings shown here, will there be any caching in Firefox?
browser.cache.disk.enable = false
browser.cache.memory.enable = false
network.http.use-cache = true
With the following settings above, will there be any caching in FF?
Does the disk.enable and ...
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Why is a # sign added to the end of URLS?
Note: I'm asking this from the perspective of the site developers (trying to help someone there). not as a user. Please don't forward this to superuser.com. It's a server admin question.
Have a look ...
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HTTP response for deleted or disabled items on ecommerce store
What HTTP response should you send when an item/category on your ecommerce site has been disabled or deleted? 410 looks correct for deleted products but not sure about something that has been disabled ...
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why is having (or excluding) 'www' in the URL affecting how my site displays to users?
I am cleaning markup on a website for my first customer. I did not build the site; I want to remove the table-based design and replace it with proper CSS, before I add a shopping cart to the site.
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HTTPS best practices for SEO and usability
Consider a page, http://example.com, which can be viewed both publicly and when a user authenticates. Now suppose you enable HTTPS for every page when a user logs into your website, but only when they ...
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HTTP for one part of the site, HTTPS for other
We have a site which is HTTP, but it has an admin part. How can we secure the admin part with HTTPS?
For example, WordPress (which I know) is located at http://foo.com, but we want to have ...
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Considerations of the HTTP Content-MD5 Header
We are debating whether to use the Content-MD5 header.
Pros:
The CMS allows us to easily include it with minimal overhead (cached responses in 80%+ of the cases).
It would add another layer of ...
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Ways for client to include page ID in query?
I'm no expert on web development, and need to find a way to let the browser call a PHP routine on the server with the current document ID as parameter, eg.
http://www.acme.com/index.php?id=1
I then ...
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What MIME type are you meant to use for JavaScript files?
In the html we always use <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="???"></script> (the ECMA stuff confuses some browsers) but on the HTTP side what are you meant to use as the ...
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Browser privacy improvement implications for websites
On https://panopticlick.eff.org/ EFF let you test the number of uniquely identifying bits that the browser gives a website. Among these are HTTP header fields such as User-Agent, Accept, ...
