Questions tagged [http-headers]
In the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), HTTP header fields contain the operating parameters of an HTTP request or response. With the request or response line (first line of message), they form the message header.
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How can I add HTTP headers in Cloudflare?
I have a Cloudflare website and it is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, but I want to add HTTP headers to this website. There are a lot of DNS and HTTP related settings in Cloudflare. I am undecided which ...
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Does the Referrer-Policy header affect Google Analytics tracking?
I'd like to use the Referrer-Policy header in my site.
Depending on which value I use, it will send more, less or no referrer information to a link's target site.
If I use a restrictive value, e.g. ...
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Are there any headers to suggest a web request is done to retrieve metadata?
Since polling metadata (e.g. open graph protocol metadata) from web request responses to display a preview of a url has become common, e.g. on social media and messengers, is there currently any ...
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How can I stop the browser identifying my server
When I check my headers with some of the websites around, they can tell that I am using Apache.
For example -
Headers returned from: https://example.com
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-...
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nginx Content-Security-Policy headers: why do they have to be all on the same line? (version 1.18 vs 1.22)
I have two different servers, one using nginx 1.18 and another using 1.22.
The headers on the 1.18 version are:
add_header Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline';
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Should I always use 410 instead of 404?
A 410 HTTP header means the deleted content is gone forever.
When I remove a page from my website, I never put it back and it is gone forever.
I want Google to index nothing other than the existing ...
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.htaccess security headers for IONOS
I need to implement security headers for a website hosted by IONOS. I've used the following code, which works on sites hosted elsewhere, but not here.
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header set ...
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X-Robots-Tag across Multiple URL
I need to add X-Robots-Tag in my Apache config where it can be applied to multiple URLs which are read from a file and apply the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header, is this possible? Any pointers on how to ...
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Why does it cause issues to use robots.txt and a meta robots tag at the same time?
It seems common wisdom that using X-Robots-Tag/meta robots with robots.txt to block a URL from being indexed "can cause issues", e.g.:
Using both X-Robots-Tag and meta robots on a URL is ...
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Recording / Logging CSP Violations
I am in the process of implementing a CSP policy for a variety of domains and am looking for a method to record/log browser CSP violations encountered by any end user. I want to make sure I don't miss ...
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Cannot add "Host" header in Cloudfront
I am trying to add the "Host" header as a custom header when creating an Amazon Cloudfront Distribution. However, I always get the error "The parameter HeaderName : Host is not allowed&...
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Configure nginx to set the content type from the URL only when there is an allowed user
I implemented a location configuration like this (legituser is set by a map lookup):
location / {
if ($legituser = 0) {
return 200 "you are not allowed to access this url, please do bla bla ...
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Why Vary Header is different for CURL --head and Chrome's F12 Dev Tools
I am trying to study the HTTP response headers in popular websites. The objective is that I can cross-check with my website and adapt good things.
I tried to find how Vary header looks in the response ...
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Default cache-control directives (and behaviour) when header returns only private
I just checked the cache-control header returned by webmasters.stackexchange.com. The only directive present in the response is cache-control: private. In this case, what are the default values for ...
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SEO Impact of Vary: User-Agent header
Vary: User-Agent header is used to tell browsers, CDNs, etc., (for caching purposes) that the content differs by user agents (especially for mobile and desktop versions). But do search engine robots ...
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Minor variations in content based on user-agent - SEO Precautions like http vary header
I am planning minor variations to HTML based on user-agent. Specifically, I would not be implementing ad codes (adsense and other third party ads) for certain user-agents (certain old browsers both on ...
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Dynamic Serving via 'vary http': Is still valid? Why the industry prefer full responsive websites instead?
I have a client that asked me to develop a website using a dynamic serving technique, basically he uses the vary http header in order to serve different versions of the front-end discerning them based ...
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HTTP "Vary: User-Agent" header for a Single Page React App that does SSR for robots?
I have React web app. It's a single page app, so there's basically an "empty" HTML file with a JS bundle that does it all.
But to improve SEO capabilities, I'm doing SSR for robot crawlers ...
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Cross origin resource policy violation for JS file when setting COEP, COOP and CORP headers
What is the best way to deal with the new security headers?
Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy (COEP) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy
Cross-Origin-...
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Can you specify the max-snippet length in a X-robots-tag header?
The specs by Google does not address this issue. So, I would like to know what is the x-robots-tag equivalent for:
<meta name="googlebot" content="max-snippet:20"/>
Is it ...
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POSTing authorization headers with no $_SERVER['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] and no 'authorization' value in apache_request_headers()
I'm developing a web application that interacts with a GraphQL instance on another server (not mine). The GraphQL instance requires me to send an authorization header ("Bearer [token]"). The ...
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Chrome dev tools reports “Stalled' and ”Initial connection" under mobile mode only
One of my static pages(generated by Hugo) is loading slow on mobile mode, but the exact same page was fine on desktop mode. (google page load speed desktop score 97, but failed Core Web Vitals on ...
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Prevent indexing of text loaded by javascript from XHR-ed JSON file
I have a web document, https://example.com/page.html, where a javascript, like <script src="https://example.com/script.js"> loads a <div class="content"></div> ...
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Double redirect - referrer in headers
let's say we have redirects like this:
(1) my shortener link -> (2) bit.ly -> (3) target URL
Is it possible to check on the end (3) that user visit came from (1) my shortened link?
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What is difference between robots.txt, sitemap, robots meta tag, robots header tag?
So I am trying to learn SEO and I am honestly confused and have following 8 questions.
Do I tell a bot not to visit a certain link through X-Robots-Tag or through robot meta tag or robots.txt?
Is it ...
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When my origin serves a "304 Not Modified", Cloudflare sends "200 OK" and makes the user download the page again
I'm using Cloudflare to cache certain APIs. I'm setting the below headers in my Origin server:
Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate, max-age=300
Basically, I'm instructing the browser here to cache ...
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How does the server distinguish between 2 host names being pointed to the same IP address?
How does a Windows server distinguish between 2 host names being directed by DNS to the same IP address?
I started a new job recently. We have files.example.com pointing to x.x.x.x IP address. I got ...
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Chrome gives a content-security-policy warning when viewing an image in its own tab on my site
I'm setting Content-Security-Policy in htaccess.
I use a pretty basic and strict policy:
Header always set Content-Security-Policy
"default-src 'self';
script-src 'self' http: https: *.googleapis....
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Why does Chrome show 304 in Response Headers section but 200 in Status code?
Why does Chrome show 304 in Response Headers section but 200 in Status code? Why doesn't it show 304 in Status code (BTW, that is NOT 200 memory cache.)?
If it shows 200 I can't know it is ...
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Are these expiration headers wrong or could they hurt SEO?
I cannot figure out why my rankings dropped, at the same time I deployed 4 Nginx cache servers on different continents.
When I serve the PHP pages, I set this expiration header from the origin server,...
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What headers used in request by google bot?
What headers used in request by google bot? Must be user agent, but what else? I'm interested in cache control headers, does bot try to get fresh page, but not from cache?
The related question: Do ...
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Can a JS redirect to a not found page work in place of a real 404?
I need assistance with some issues on a Big Commerce site.
To preface, it is not my site and the IT team has a complex technology stack being utilized to build the site.
The issue is that adding an ...
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Do browsers send different HTTP headers on page reload so that server side caches can be flushed?
I'm implementing caching at the server application level, because my hosting doesn't provide Apache caching modules and it's not possible to use a reverse proxy there. Its cheap and fast hosting, so I ...
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Apache: using %{DOCUMENT_ROOT} inside <Directory> section
My virtualhost configuration file sites-available/site.conf contains (some lines omitted):
<VirtualHost *:443>
<Directory /var/www/html/my_website>
# set options
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If the content is fetched by wget, could there be an issue if I don't know the content-type in the HTTP response?
It's a question about wget. I have a simple file uuid.html in the document root that contains a single line 54da5638-099d-4cf3-9319-c436fcb81334. I get the line in a shell script with content=$(wget ...
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What the HTTP specification says about HTTP requests on a plain text without header
Some times in small shell scripts, I use an http request on a raw text file with no header, only a uuid string for identification. For example, in the apache document root, I might have a file
uuid....
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Using Post method in Faceook Graph API
When I use graph API to post on a Facebook page it's not working, it responds with an ID and URL but instead it should be responding with a post id.
When I open the URL it gives this error:
{
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Download link expired, going back to software presentation page, what redirect method to use?
When someone (user or bot) reaches an old download link like /download/yellow-wallpaper.zip?key=some-expired-download-key , user is sent back to file details page, e.g /yellow-wallpaper.html, where ...
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Will it hurt SEO to remove the '.html' extension from static pages such that they get served as 'text/x-generic'?
If we want to go with static website, we generate static html files of pages with names like contacts.html and we may add to our .htaccess file the lines like
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*[...
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Append basic authentication header NGINX to existing authentication header of upstream application
Assume the following setup:
The NGINX reverse proxy is asking for basic authentication (which is a good habit when you expose things on the internet). Basic authentication uses the Authorization ...
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Request Missing a User Agent Header
I activated ModSecurity on a cheap web hosting but I have no control over it: that is, the only thing the service provider lets you do is reading logs but, unfortunately, you can't really configure ...
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Header to describe available `content-type` responses?
It's a little cumbersome to scrape through the HTTP RFC for this particular question, so I'm hoping someone can help me short-circuit an answer:
Does the HTTP spec contain functionality for a server ...
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Status code vs. Response Header Status: what is the rule for bots?
Assuming we have a page, which has as Status Code 200 OK and as Response Headers Status HTTP/1.1 410 Gone, like on image:
What is the behavior of bots / Googlebot? To crawl/index or not?
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Chrome isn't loading static content due to HTTP2_SESSION_RECV_INVALID_HEADER - Invalid character in header name - last-modified
HTTP2_SESSION_RECV_INVALID_HEADER
--> error = "Invalid character in header name."
--> header_name = "last-modified:"
--> header_value = "Thursday,%2009-Aug-2018%2001:21:53%20GMT"
This error ...
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Responding other 'Content-Type' different from 'Accept' list
As all you know (else follow this question) the requesting Accept header allows client to specify the expected MIME types for response content.
But my case is:
client indicates an Accept of type ...
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Should I be concerned that Google Ads sometimes shows Passive mixed content (insecure images) in some Ads?
In some pages that have Google Ads, Chrome Dev Tools console shows the warning for a Passive Mixed Content:
Mixed Content: The page at '...' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested
an insecure image
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Does a 504 Gateway Timeout error mean a server has crached?
I am running a php script on a website that creates thumbnails from a big image. The script uses imagick to generates 10 thumbnails per image.
It runs on first page load, when the thumbnails don't ...
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404 status code for HTTP/2
How does a correct 404 status code look like on using HTTP/2 protocol? HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found seems to be for the previous protocol version, but I can't find anywhere something meaningful about status ...
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HTTP-header canonical and link tag canonical on same page?
I've come across websites using both a HTTP-header based canonical as well as a tag-based canonical. Sometimes they are not referencing the same URL which brings me to my question - does one have ...
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How to disable http method verb tunneling in nginx
Our security team ran a web-inspect security scan on our site and asked us to disable verb tunneling using headers or query parameters such as X-HTTP-Method, XHTTP-Method-Override, X-Method-Override, ...
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