Questions tagged [http]
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is the protocol most commonly used to transfer information around the World Wide Web.
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How to change Firefox's referer header for all http requests
When making a request for (for example) http://example.com/foo/bar.baz, Firefox sends a referer header indicating which page I clicked a link from, or is loading a picture, etc. Eg:
Referer: http://...
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Files in FTP Folder to HTTP Addresses in txt file?
I have uploaded a folder to my ftp site. Problem is GoDaddy hosting do not allow directory browsing over http.
I would like to give share this folder with 1 person who is not technically inclined.
Is ...
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Commandline http download tool for Windows
Is there a built-in command line tool for downloading files from the internet? I know there is wget for windows, which is fantastic piece of technology, but I am not allowed to install it :( I just ...
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How to save a bookmark in Firefox with POST data?
I would like to save as a Firefox bookmark a page which is not accessible using GET. The only way to retrieve the page is to send some POST data.
For example, I would like to bookmark a Chronopost ...
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Windows XP won't http POST a large file
I've created a tool on our intranet where a user can send a (big) tgz file using a simple/basic html form (POST/multipart).
When using either firefox or IE:
The form is not sent when the file is ...
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How do I make Firefox forget HTTP Basic Auth?
How can I make Firefox "invalidate" it's saved HTTP Basic Auth credentials for a website from the client side?
Currently, I have to restart the browser, which is rather cumbersome with multiple tabs ...
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Can't download images from a website if the images use HTTPS but the website uses HTTP?
When I go to this website aiag.org, it seems to download the page, but not the images. I noticed that the page uses the HTTP protocol, but the images are referenced with the HTTPS protocol. This ...
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What is blocking the FTP and HTTP traffic on XP with Windows Firewall disabled?
I've just had to reinstall the drivers for the D-Link G510 wireless card on an XP machine as they were causing a BSOD. It now successfully connects to the internet as I can ping and tracert to www....
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how can i check the size on a server?
how can I check the size of file on server in bytes?
i need to do it for following
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For file transfer, does ftp perform better than http?
When I have http as well as ftp options (like the Hadoop download page), should I prefer ftp?
I have tried ftp before and did not notice any significant difference. Is it supposed to perform better?
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How can I debug why safari is so slow loading a page sometimes?
On Mac OS X 10.6.4 with Safari 5.0.1 I entered a web address in the browser bar and sometimes it's lighting fast, and sometimes terribly slow. My wifi connection has a perfect signal strength and the ...
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trying to access Google server on different ports
Why is that
http://www.google.com:443/
fails almost instantaneously, while
http://www.google.com:8080/
takes some more time before failing?
If there is no server on these ports, both the ...
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Linux utility to execute HTTP requests and examine raw responses
I'm learning about the HTTP protocol and I'd like to know if there's a tool I can use to input a HTTP request I have created myself that will output the raw response. I've had a look at cURL and wget ...
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Problems exposing a web site from behind a router
I have a D-Link DSL-2650U ADSL router for my home network.
I also have my own domain server registered at dyndns.org, and I have successfully configured my router to keep [mydomain].dyndns.org ...
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wget authenticated HTTP Connection Failed
First off, I am not a Linux guy, but I have to pretend to be one sometimes as a web developer.
So, we have a Red Hat server and I'm using wget in crontab to run some PHP scripts.
We've been doing ...
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Increasing download speed by using multiple IP addresses? - Ubuntu
quite often sites limit download speed per ip address or identified user.
Is it possible to use a tool such as wget in order to overcome this limitation?
Ideas would be great.
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What happens when you enter a URL in your browser? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What exactly happens when you browse a website in your browser.
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First URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It will be very difficult to remember an IP address. Instead ...
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HTTP trace method enabled
I run some scans with nikto, and it tells me that HTTP trace method is enabled.
What is HTTP trace method ? And what can be insecure about it?
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unauthenticated http proxy, wget fails, curl works
I'm running a ubuntu 10.04 i386 desktop edition. I have configured the http proxy via the http_proxy variable. When I use wget I get a connection refused but, curl, apt-get etc. work just fine. Any ...
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Browser http port-forwarding
When using a browser like Firefox I need that any url of the domain example.com to have appended the port :8008. Not only when I type it at address bar but any where it is referenced within the served ...
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telnet - is there a maximum line limit?
I am working on several servers that use HTTP for transport of commands.
What I have encountered is that some of the commands I am trying to issue by hand are very long GETs, several lines, and that ...
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WAN interface responds as LAN when request comes from LAN, is that correct?
I have a problem with my router/modem. I've published an HTTP service from one of my internal computers and when I access the service from the internal lan using the external IP address the modem ...
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install remote desktop in a PC with FTP and HTTP access
I have a machine behind a firewall to which I have only FTP and HTTP access - is there any remote desktop software available that I can install over FTP and access over HTTP (java based perhaps)?
The ...
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Force a browser to load the 'https' edition of a website, not the 'http'?
This is similar to this previous question, but I believe it's a bit different*.
Sites like GMail support a preference that pushes all traffic through the SSL edition of the site rather than the plain-...
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how to configure Firefox to automatically reuse the login credentials like IE
Multiple HTTP Authentication Prompts in Firefox
We are currently working on porting our application from Internet Explorer to Firefox and the application currently uses HTTP Digest Authentication. In ...
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Circumventing a manual HTML login page for "unclassified" websites (automation purposes, credentials known)
The IT department just made my life a little bit harder again: they introduced a manual HTML login page for all websites they have not "classified". This means that all the applications which try to ...
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http port 80 slow, while other ports are fine
I am using ADSL2+, and the sustained connection can go up to 1.3MB/s,
but recently the HTTP connection has been quite slow ( other port i.e. ftp, torrent, etc are fine).
I am using Netgear modem/...
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URIs for QuickTime X
Apple lets you Stream video over HTTP with their new tech, but is there a URI scheme to open the .m3u8 files from a browser in Quicktime X? (ie. Open as a URL, rather than downloading and attempting ...
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How do I determine which application is using port 8080? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Finding the process that is using a certain port in linux
I have an Ubuntu Server setup, where I'm trying to set up a daemon that wants to have access to port 8080. When I run ...
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Is there a tool to modify HTTP packet on the fly?
Wireshark is good, but it doesn't allow you to change the content of the packet.
Is there a tool to do this job?
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Good HTTP request analyzer for Ubuntu?
On Windows, I use WireShark for analyzing HTTP requests and replies. Is there a similar tool for Ubuntu?
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Mercurial mirror: abort: No such file or directory: http://[...]/00manifest.i
I am trying to setup a daily mirror of a mercurial repository - code.python.org in particular - within our local network, and serve that via Apache HTTPD.
On the remote host that hosts apache, I did ...
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Exclude localhost from htt_proxy
I'm trying to access a server that is running locally on my machine (localhost). I'm using the "wget"-command to download the servers http-response. I've also tried using the "curl"-command to do this,...
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check file revision through http only
If an svn repository is exposed through, say, http://svn to users, and there's a file called script.sh, is there a way one can get the latest revision number of script.sh just through http access?
I'...
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Is there a Windows Media Player plugin to send music info to a webpage?
I'm looking for a way to track my music playing on my website and am trying to find a way to post the music information, such as all the music file details (i.e. title, album, year, etc), when the ...
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Windows HTTP tunnel through 2 Linux hosts?
The localhost only has connection to Host1. Host1 has connection to Host2 and localhost. How can I setup this to use Host2 as a proxy for web trafic from localhost?
I have seen similar topics but can'...
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How does 'www.google.com' change to 'http://www.google.com' in a browser?
What happens when I type www.google.com and click go in the browser. How does the URL change to http://www.google.com? Please explain this to me.
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Is there a good tool that lets me sniff the network calls?
My objective:
Itunes talks to their cloud servers. I want to be able to know which URL they are talking to when I use my Itunes. How can I do that?
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How can I do a HTTP PUT with Wget?
I am trying to use Wget to access a RESTful interface, but I can not figure out how to do HTTP PUT with Wget. How can I do it? Or isn't it prossible?
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Download a file via HTTP from a script in Windows
I want a way to download a file via HTTP given its URL (similar to how wget works). I have seen the answers to this question, but I have two changes to the requirements:
I would like it to run on ...
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How to prevent blocking http auth popups on firefox restart with many tabs open
I am using the latest firefox with tab mix plus and tabgoups manager. I have maybe 50 or 100 tabs oben in different tab groups. When I shutdown firefox and start it again all tabs and tab groups are ...
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HTTP 400 error for all websites
A couple of days ago, I started getting HTTP 400 responses from all websites. Nothing will go across port 80. However, everything works if I connect to VPN. The weird thing is, without VPN, other ...
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Possible Hack with FTP - What are the solutions?
I was reading the FTP rfc and hence had this idea.
Suppose there are several public ftp servers that allow anonymous user login. I open a control connection on port 21 to each of these servers.
Now ...
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503 Service Unavailable - What really it means?
I developed a website and it loads in every other system but certainly not in mine ... WHen i used firebug my request show 503 Service Unavailable
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My response was,
Server squid/2.6.STABLE21
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Software to measure the speed of http browser connections [closed]
I'm trying to gather some ammunition about my ISP and it's aggressive traffic shaping of particular websites. So I'm looking for an application that will allow me to see what speeds I get to ...
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Can I detect what webserver a website is using? [closed]
Is there any program or command that I can use to detect what webserver a website is using? With webserver I mean in software i.e. IIS 6, Apache or nginx.
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Block HTTP Access
Is there a way on my Windows XP machine to blacklist certain HTTP URLS so that embedded web service calls won't trigger activity from my PC to those URLs?
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How to set up that specific domains are tunneled to another server
I am working at an university as research assistant. Often I would like to connect from home to university resources over http or ssh, but they are blocked from outside access. Therefore, they have a ...
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A browser that mirrors data?
I was wondering if anyone knows of a type of service or browser which has the ability to send an encrypted HTTP request to a web server which is blocked to respond to my geolocation?
to mention I can ...
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