HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) is just one communications protocol on the web. Others include: tcp Transmission Control Protocol udp User Datagram Protocol icmp Internet Control Message Protocol pop3 Post Office Protocol ftp File Transfer Protocol imap Internet Message Access Protocol
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When is it safe to assume file uploads are successful?
When I upload files to a server through HTTP or FTP, I normally download them again just to check that they were successfully uploaded (I use md5 checksums to check that).
Is this necessary? Can I be ...
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http ftp imap smtp and some additional ports not working
I'm writing this using a 3G connection on my phone.
At lunch time yesterday, the ports above and a few additional other ports like 40001 and 4089 stopped working on my internet connection at work.
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Encrypted File is corrupted when uploaded to server via HTTP Post
i am making an application which has a function that it encrypt file and then upload it to the server via HTTP POST. I tried it and it works fine when i test it on localhost (Local Server on my same ...
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HTTP proxy server for Windows that forwards to SOCKS proxy
I have am application for Windows which only supports HTTP proxies (no SOCKS support).
Because I already have some good SOCKS proxy lists, I was wondering: Is there some HTTP proxy server for ...
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Mimicking file requests on my web server [migrated]
I haven't been able to test this extensively yet, so bear with me.
The scenario is like so: I created a temporary file on my web server, downloaded the file, deleted the file. About 3 minutes later I ...
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Why are HTTP requests ignored?
I have the following network:
· openbsd 5.0 web server (LAN)
· windows 7 (LAN)
· router provided by my ISP (LAN, WAN)
· cell phone not conected to the network (WAN)
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As LAN I mean a home ...
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DNSSEC regarding
I'm asking this question as software (and also because there have been a few DNSSEC questions on here in the past).
http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_cache_poisoning#Prevention_and_mitigation
I ...
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How to download a Wikispaces page
I usually download webpages with HTTrack when I know that I'll need that page, and I'll have no internet connection. That's what I wanted to do with Wikispaces page too.
However, HTTrack just can't ...
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Are HTTP connections opened and closed for each request? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Do browsers create new TCP connections for each HTTP requests?
I have a F5 load balancer that directs traffic to 2 web servers with one having a higher priority than the ...
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How to formally reject a SOAP request? [closed]
I've a large F5 LTM load balancer environment I'm looking after which we are configuring to rate limit requests at a URI level. For human web users we are 302ing them to a busy page, but we also run ...
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SSL-VPN connection out into internet?
Is it possible for me to "rent" a web server, use a cisco AnyConnect client on my machine, create an SSL-VPN tunnel to the server I am renting and then use this to tunnel my internet connection onto ...
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Home server not responding to HTTP
I have a home server running Ubuntu 11.10.
It is currently configured to have a static IP address via my router.
I also use a Dynamic DNS service built into the router to update my domain name to ...
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Instant reverse HTTP proxy from a Linux command-line
There is a nice trick to instantly serve contents of a current working directory by HTTP locally:
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer
This command launches HTTP server at *:8000, serving $PWD contents.
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Why won't IE let users login to a website unless in In Private mode?
I'm not entirely sure this belongs on SuperUser.com. I also considered ServerFault.com and StackOverflow.com, but on balance, I think it should belong here?
We host a website which has the same code ...
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How to see HTTP request header by curl?
I can see HTTP header response by curl -I command.
Is there any option to see the HTTP request header sent?
# curl -I www.google.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:55:53 GMT
Expires: -1
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I want to serve media across my LAN via HTTP with a nice interface
I've got a huge digital video library and a ton of devices I use to watch content. I want to be able to stream content from my library to my devices, and generally the easiest mechanism I've found is ...
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What happens if my ISP's DNS server isn't available?
Just curious, if my ISP's DNS server was actually unavailable (as opposed to a DNS attack like poisoning) does the DNS architecture have a way of traversing up the DNS hierarchy until it finds a ...
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How do I change the default TCP listening port for VLC HTTP Remote Control from 8080?
I think most of the info is in the question but here's a little more detail on what I'm trying to achieve.
I control VLC via my Android phone and the VLC Remote app. It works just fine, but I'd ...
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GET works but telnet does not (HTTP GET)
I tried this from bash:
GET http://cetatenie.just.ro HTTP/1.1
It works fine, and I am able to get the page, then I try this from telnet:
telnet cetatenie.just.ro 80
Trying 85.120.166.76...
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Do browsers create new TCP connections for each HTTP requests?
So I know that HTTP is basically just a text protocol over TCP, and that TCP is state / connection based. That means that the browser has to connect over TCP to a server before doing an HTTP request. ...
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Why would IIS 5.1 (Windows XP) not produce the correct MIME type for css files?
I'm doing some HTML pages which include a style sheet and some server side includes. Now, I want to set up a laptop so I can work on it; the machine has Windows XP and IIS 5.1. I have set up a ...
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TCP/IP on the transport level
I'm trying to understand what happens when I send a packet using a socket on the transport level. Do all packets which leave my computer go first to a geographical location designated by my ISP? Then ...
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Scrape a site with curl/wget appending a parameter to each site
I need to scrape a website for all sites and append an Paramater, e.g.
www.theSite.com/allpages?myPara=us
Now what I got is wget --recursive to get all sites, but that doesn't append the parameter ...
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Is downloading multiple files faster than downloading one file at a time?
Sometimes there's a need to download multiple files from somewhere. The protocol I'm specifically interested in is HTTP, however this question is also relevant to FTP or any other non-P2P protocol for ...
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How to set userinfo as HTTP-header on apache-reverseproxy?
I have configured my apache for a simple authenticated reverse-proxy, which works fine. Now I want to set the userinfo as a http-header. like:
<Location /somehost/>
ProxyPass ...
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How can I monitor all the outgoing HTTP requests from my PC?
I'm running Windows Vista home premium.
I want to see all outgoing HTTP requests from my PC along with the URL.
Is there any free tool for this?
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Downloading files greater than 2gb via http doesn't work
I am raring up files and downloading them via HTTP from my webserver.
Most of the files have been below 2GB but now it seems the ones that are round 2GB and higher aren't working.
When I download ...
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Can I browse the web using the UDP protocol?
Is it possible to browse the web if a firewall is blocking the HTTP protocol?
I've read about OpenVPN UDP tunnelling, but is it possible to use the web via the UDP protocol?
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Moxa - NPort 5110 as HTTP Server or similar
I have a NPort 5110 Serial Device Server connecting our Automation Control Box to the LAN so we can communicate with it from a non-local pc via mapped com port. (if you are unfamiliar with the device ...
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Can I get my http back in the address bar in Firefox?
Since Firefox 7 (or 6?) they silently removed "http" from the address bar. Previously, when you clicked it, "http" showed up again, allowing to easily just change http into https.
So far, I found two ...
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How to open an OpenOffice document and scroll to a bookmark?
How to open an OpenOffice document and scroll to a bookmark or chosen page number? Can I do this with the command-line?
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Public, reputable sources of time sync via HTTP to use where NTP is blocked?
Let's say I'm in a corporate network where the NTP protocol is blocked, the BOFH^H^H^H^H sysadmins won't unblock it, and they didn't bother to set up a good internal NTP server. What's a good source ...
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Diagnosing an Internet Radio's network problems
I bought an Internet radio: a box with speakers, built-in CD player and FM tuner, Ethernet connector, WiFi antenna etc. It's a new model, released about 6 months ago. When I try to set it up, ...
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How to find out if a server is acting as a reverse proxy?
As far as I know some webhosting companies use reverse proxies as some sort of load balancer, so all the HTTP requests go to one one physical server, but behind this there are several other ...
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How do I sniff HTTP traffic on OS X Lion?
I'm developing a web application and I'm trying to check the HTTP traffic is going on whenever a page loads.
Which application can I use? I'm on OS X Lion. I'm fine with either command line based or ...
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Windows task scheduler to execute tasks in seconds
I'm looking for an open source/free task scheduler for Windows 7 (development machine) that will allow me to schedule tasks (HTTP requests to a web service) to run every x seconds.
I've tried a ...
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Comcast SMC Port Forwarding Issue
I have a Comcast SMCD3G modem/router and I've been having issues getting the port to forward - When I check an online "open-port-checker" it says the port is forwarded/they can see the port on my IP. ...
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Unable to connect my computer from LAN (http, smb) in UBUNTU 10.04
I installed ubuntu 10.04, Apache, PHP, mysql, smb. Everything work fine in locally in my IP. When i trying to access my computer from LAN (other computer), it shows unable to connect. when i ping my ...
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convert login form to POST url
I've seen some similar articles but this is specific to login URL's and cookies.
here is the form I'm trying to emulate:
<form action="http://www.myserver.com/login/" method="post" ...
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How to throttle HTTP requests in Firefox?
When using the Web, I occasionally stumble on various (rather reasonable) DoS protection features used by the server administrators. Most commonly this happens when using Zotero which tends to ...
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Why is “It works!” showing up at my http://127.0.0.1 (localhost)?
So, I was playing around with Java sockets, servers and streams, the other day, and I decided, purely out of curiosity, expecting no good results, to open Google Chrome and navigate to 127.0.0.1, and ...
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What is the difference between the refresh command in firefox? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Ctrl+F5 vs Ctrl+R (On Browsers)
What is the difference between Ctrl+F5 and just F5 on firefox? And are there any other ways to refresh firefox?
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Why does “//” instead of http or https before the actual link work?
I just noticed that I can write //google.com instead of http://google.com and it still works.
Is that some kind of short-hand? Maybe it's something that's built in my browser (Chrome 14)?
Is it safe ...
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Monitoring incoming requests on a web hosting server
I have a web hosting account with GoDaddy (its a Linux based hosting). Can I install applications like netcat to monitor all incoming requests to my website on a certain port? If not, is there any ...
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How can I redirect HTTP requests to use HTTPS?
Is it possible to automatically redirect HTTP to HTTPS?
Can I amend my host file in such a way that when I visit http://www.hsbc.co.uk it will redirect me to https://www.hsbc.co.uk? or is there ...
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Firefox extension to log out of HTTP authentication-based sites
The title says it all. does it exist? I know the webdeveloper toolbar does, but I would love something that's a bit more specific and clearly shows me in the browser I'm logged in, and a button to log ...
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Http analyzer free alternative? [closed]
Are there any free alternatives for this app ??
http://www.ieinspector.com/httpanalyzer/
It's great, it monitors all open http requests and downloaded size.
Any suggestions please ??
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Reloading a Tab in Firefox until success
Is there any plugin for Firefox which reloads a tab every “x” amount of time but stops reloading after the first successful request (HTTP status code 2xx)?
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Watching http in wireshark
Wireshark reassembles TCP Segments. For teaching purposes, I'd like to see the actual packets (not the reassembled TCP Segments) that flow on a network when you access a webpage.
Can I do that with ...
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Can you get a reply from a HTTPS site using the Ping command?
I tried using the ping command on a https page, but the message says that ping could not find the host. Is there some issue regarding ping and https?
