HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is the protocol most commonly used to transfer information around the World Wide Web.
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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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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? [duplicate]
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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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 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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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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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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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?
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http://localhost:8080/ points to firefox installation directory C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
When I type http://localhost:8080/ in any of my windows browser , I see all the files listed in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox which is my Firefox installation directory. I am not sure which http ...
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Supplant torrent download with an Http download?
When downloading a large file, is it possible to download it via both the BitTorrent and HTTP protocols?
For example, when downloading an Ubuntu ISO image, I would like to download via BitTorrent, ...
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ssh http proxy, but can't sudo in server
I have access to a server through ssh, but I want to be able to use that server to surf the web from my computer. I'm not sure if that's called setting up an HTTP proxy through SSH, but I can't modify ...
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Firefox HTTP auth dialog not modal
It is possible to make HTTP authentification dialog in Firefox not modal?
I do NOT want any auto-submit addon (LastPass, AutoAuth), or anything that remebers password and then submits it ...
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How do I download a folder that is at ftp://download.example.com
Going to that link shows me the folder and I can save the constituent files one by one...but How do I use an ftp client (like winscp for example) or something else to access the folder and just copy ...
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Free HTTP Tunnel client and server for Windows
I'm looking for a client and server-application to tunnel communication through a company network. Its firewall is only open on port 80.
The server will be my PC at home.
Which application can you ...
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Redirect from HTTP to HTTPs in lighthttpd
How can I redirect from HTTP to HTTPS with lighthttpd?
There are tons of lighttpd config snippets floating around to make this happen, but so far none of these really worked. Currently I am still ...
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Allow only HTTP/HTTPS comunication with Agitum Outpost Security Suite Free
Hi I use Agitum Outpost Security Suite Free and I would like allow only HTTP(80) a HTTPS(443) protocols for IN/OUT and also allow local ports for Oracle database, etc.
I try use Network Rules -> ...
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Please recommend a lightweight easily installable http server for OSX
I need an http server to serve up static content on localhost.
It needs to meet the following conditions:
easy to install, minimal configuration, just fire up from a directory and that's it
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