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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Interpretation of empty User-agent
How should I interpret a empty User-agent? I have some custom analytics code and that code has to analyze only human traffic. I have got a working list of User-agents denoting human traffic, and bot ...
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Is it possible to invalidate cache when the referrer adress is different?
Suppose I serve an image and if someone visits from a forum then I want it to download that image. If they visit again from the same forum then I want it to use cache, but if they visit from another ...
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cname forward from https to http
We are migrating web host and I wonder if it is possible in the migration phase to do a CNAME forward from https://address1.com to http://address2.com. Would the certificate still work even if the new ...
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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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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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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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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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google chrome : http authentication issue on iframe
I have an HTML file with 2 links both links are in an iframe to load the contents inside the iframe. I have two protected directories one on the same server and other on another server. If you click ...
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cPanel Monthly Bandwidth Traffic - HTTP Traffic Extremely High
So I have a website/blog which I have hosted with a service which is offering me 2000mb of monthly bandwidth traffic.
I recently have started getting a lot of traffic, or I suppose, enough to push me ...
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CSS Sprites: Are they worth the trouble?
I can't help but wonder whether CSS sprites are very much over-used.
First of all, if I stick all my images in a single file it makes an aweful lot of empty space. I know, that shouldn't make an ...
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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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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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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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https:// search results appearing on Google for purely http:// site
I started weeding through my site's search results from Google today, using a site: search, to determine if there are any links that cause 404s and thus need redirecting. To my amazement I noticed ...
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Why is nat required when proxy is enough? [closed]
My machine is connected in a local lan. to connect to the internet the traffic goes through proxy server. my understanding of proxy server is that it sends the request on behalf of the original ...
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Can I use both Digest and Basic Authentication on the same directory in Apache?
The reason I would want to do this is to support very old browsers (e.g. IE 6) that does not implement the more secure Digest method. If all new clients advertise the types of authentication they ...
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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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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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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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HTTPS To http redirect issue. How to overcome?
Have already seen suggests on how to rewrite https to http. currently using this technique :
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ...
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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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Is 301 redirect sufficient to solve WWW and HTTP/S duplication?
I was reading about this article - SEO preference for WWW or HTTP:// protocol redirection? Do www websites rank better than NON-www?
I have same problem but I needed a help on this further. What ...
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Google search results are invalid
I'm writing a program that lets a user perform a Google search.
When the result comes back, all of the links in the search results are links not to other sites but to Google, and if the user clicks ...
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Alternative to nofollow: custom 302 url shortener?
Here's the scenario: lots of blogging platforms make it tedious to insert nofollow into links within the post content. I.e., you need to edit the html, format it correctly, etc.
I have a client who ...
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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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What are reasons of latency for a HTTP request to load HTML?
I would like to know what are reasons of latency for a HTTP request to load HTML part of a webpage.
I think about:
loading webpage with proxy
not having a good web server (apache vs nginx)
having a ...
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htaccess doesnt work in subfolder
I'm using xampp with apache on my windows machine.
My directory structure is:
C:/xampp/htdocs
---------------/Sync
--------------------/ProtectedFolderA
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Connection Reset / Interrupted error occurring for http connections over DDNS to access NAS personal web site [closed]
I have a local NAS hosting a personal website that I'd like to work with both http and https protocols.
So far https works correctly, but http keeps returning "Connection Reset" in Firefox and "This ...
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Http header 302 error
Response Headers
status HTTP/1.1 302 Found
connection close
pragma no-cache
cache-control no-cache
location /
location /NKiXN/
I don't know how it became so but i used w3 total cache ...
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New standard HTTP protocol [closed]
Many large sites have stopped using http://site to use only //site
Examples:
In adwords tools
And on some microsoft pages.
I believe that //site is bad
bots because some may misconstrue
and beyond ...
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Apache DVB http video Streaming bandwidth or priority problem
I'm streaming few precompressed DVB videos from cloud. The streams are generated from VLC on "impossible" ports (such as 64085, 64086 etc) reverse proxed by Apache on port 80 and 8080.
All the ...
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How to upload a http file to Hostsite(DreamHost) [closed]
How do i upload a http file to any hosting sites? Preferably Dreamhost.
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My forum HTTP redirect won't work .htaccess? [closed]
Yeah, I already have this code "DirectoryIndex Forum-The-Lounge.html index.php" at the top of my .htaccess
And I want my site to redirect into a sub-forum like http://mebes.net? My site is ...
