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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http://www.example.com/http://www.example.com/ in Apache log?
I run a website, let's say www.example.com. On it I have a path and file, say www.example.com/path/file.html.
The Apache log lists GET requests like: GET /path/file.html HTTP/1.1
Which is correct, ...
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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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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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How to track HTTP and HTTPS from the same Google Analytics account?
I have a website with tutorials and a discuss forum. The website load on http protocol and the forum load with https for security reasons.
For both of them I run the default Google Analytics code, but ...
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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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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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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 there additional overhead for status code 500s?
We have these web applications that require specific information in a query string. If that information is not provided, the applications throw an error. It seems to me that we should explicitly ...
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Need a study about average latency due to HTTP request and server processing time when downloading images that are a part of DOM
I'm writing a thesis about css sprites and need to know the of the average HTTP request overhead when establishing a connection to download an image file that is a part of DOM.
We conducted a study ...
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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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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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What are the Consequences for using Relative Location Headers?
According to the spec, Location headers used in a redirect require a server name
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
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Location: http://example.com/foo/baz/bar
However, in 2012, most web browsers will ...
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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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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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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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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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Deleted files still accessible without www in url
I have deleted all files and all hidden files off my server, there is nothing but log files which cannot be deleted.
Ironically, files are accessible when nothing is there. Cache cleared, multiple ...
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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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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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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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Confused about domain names
I am confused about the difference between http://www.example.com and http://example.com, is that true "www" is actually the subdomain of domain example.com? Do people usually redirect from ...
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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 ...
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How to tell google to stop crawling my website via IP?
After a database server migration, Ive noticed that GoogleBot started getting errors when trying to crawl my site.
The reason seems to be that its hitting my site via IP address (and due to my config ...
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HTTP Headers caching
I am not totally sure bout HTTP headers, but from what I read its good to have some level of caching on static pages also I am not sure if Transfer Encoding: chunked is a good thing. I was not finding ...
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Avoid the login popup when using http-auth
I have an Apache. Under the DOCUMENTROOT is a folder with an .htpasswd file for http-auth. If I open the browser and request the content in the folder I get an Popup to login.
Is there a way to avoid ...
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Does the SPDY protocol eliminate the need for cookieless domains?
With plain HTTP, cookieless domains are an optimization to avoid unnecessarily sending cookie headers for page resources.
However, the SPDY protocol compresses HTTP headers and in some cases ...
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Why was 303 skipped in HTTP/1.0?
While looking back over HTTP response codes today I noticed that the 301, 302, and 304 response codes were defined in HTTP/1.0 but not the 303 response code. Does anyone know why the number 303 was ...
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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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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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http requests, using sprites and file sizes -
Hi all I'm in the process of finding out all about sprites and how they can speed up your pages.
So I've used spriteMe to create a overall sprite image which is 130kb, this is made up of 14 images ...
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What is the default behavior of Cache-Control
If no private nor public were defined in the cache-control, e.g.
Cache-Control: max-age=31461276
What is the expected behavior?
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Phpmyadmin http password security
Is my password sent unencrypted when using Phpmyadmin through http?
If not, is there any downside using http compared to https?
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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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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 request terminating early
I noticed that on some of my sites, images were occasionally not getting downloaded fully.
After a bit of investigation it appears that it is not restricted to images - .css, .js etc were also ...
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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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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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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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Cannot access my own web page
I am developing, learning and experimenting with php,html,javascript,flash and so on.
Having web hosting and all of the cpanel, phpmyadmin and other utilities.
One day, while updating information, ...
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Reduce HTTP Requests method for js and css
Is these way can Reduce HTTP Requests?
multiple javascript files with & symbol
<script type="text/javascript"
...
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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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HTTP Header Cache Time: s-maxage and max-age
I am setting up a CDN for my website, I found the following sample for adding to the 'httpd.conf' file, this is used to adjust the cache-time for client and CDN:
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType ...
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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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Difficulty enabling caching on inherited site
I have been asked to work on a corporate website a previous employee had created.
The site is on shared GoDaddy hosting. One of the first things I noticed (after the 140KB JPEG on the front page, ...
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http occurring twice in a URL
I ran into a website today that had two URLs and im completely stunned. The website, not to be specific, has a full address of http://example/cat/http://example/dog. I will say that the first part is ...
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Is there a Java-based web browser that doesn't follow hyperlinks properly?
Looking through my logs, I get this error a lot:
A potentially dangerous Request.Path value was detected from the client (:).
The error is usually due to someone navigating to a URL like this:
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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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Why is honest cloaking for Ajax considered bad practice? [closed]
Ajax-only websites are laden with many problems. Search engine invisibility is merely a small problem. They are also unbookmarkable and unlinkable and they break the functionality of back- and ...
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Loading main javascript on every page? Or breaking it up to relevant pages?
I have a 700kb decompressed JS file which is loaded on every page. Before I had 12 javascript files on each page but to reduce http requests I compressed them all into 1 file.
This file is ~130kb ...
