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How do other companies handle approved browsers and versions for internal corporate web development hardware?
I am a web developer for a very large IT organization. Our sites see a healthy portion of our traffic from Google Chrome. So as a web developer I have that browser on my development laptop to test our ...
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Why do browsers not use SRV records?
Why do browsers not use SRV records?
It seems like a minimal amount of work and it will make the server-side implementation of reliable websites much simpler.
SRV records have been around for ...
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Google Chrome 16: Where to increase parallel connections per Host? [closed]
I am going crazy I cant find in Chrome 16 the settings to increase the parallel connections per host.
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How do I set up my own CA for certs and begin importing it in my Computers and/or browsers
I'd like to set up my own Certificate Authority to sign things that are only used internally.
Does anyone have any steps they've used to set up their own CA and begin signing certs. I'd also like to ...
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DNS Round Robin: Do browsers stick to one IP as long as it is online?
How do most browsers behave if they get multiple A-records from the DNS server? Do the stick to one IP as long as it is reachable (and only use another if the IP is down)? Or do they switch all the ...
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How force Chrome to use google.com search engine without https [migrated]
Chrome's default search engine is https://google.com.
how we can force chrome to use http://google.com without https?
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What is the maximum file size that will be cached by a browser? [closed]
What is the maximum file size that will be cached by a browser? Note that I don't mean the maximum size of the browser cache. I mean, what is the maximum individual file that will be cached.
If ...
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How does browser resolve websites in my company network..? [closed]
I am using Mac/Firefox.
Use System Proxy Settings.
My question is how does my off-the-shelf installed Firefox resolve local websites names, when apparently, I am not using any proxy. I just use ...
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How browsers handle multiple IPs
Can someone direct me to information on exact browsers behavior when browser gets multiple A records for a given hostname (say ip1 and ip2), and one of them is not accessible.
I interested in EXACT ...
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Good resources for understanding HTTP, Browsing, caching, web server security etc? [closed]
When I ask questions, many of the times, people leave answers like "first learn about this (or that)." The problem is, I don't know if I can find books specifically written on those subjects.
Here ...
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Browsing by DNS name not working, everything else is [closed]
Running on a Snow Leopard MacBook air, can't browse the web (in any browser, tried FF,Chrome,Safari) using DNS names that are either already cached in DNS or not. Browsing to google.com or ...
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Are SSL Client Certificates well supported by all major browsers?
We're thinking of improving the authentication of some critical webpages with client certificates, but we're not sure whether it's a widely used standard.
Are SSL Client Certificates well supported ...
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Do browsers count requests from different subdomains as different hostnames?
According to this message in the AWS forums, I should serve my static assets from different hostnames because I can achieve more parallel downloads with the client's browser, do I need a totally ...
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Browsers can't handle the real time updates my app is sending, slows everything waay down
Posted this a couple days ago, have made some more progress. Thanks for the help, this is delaying our launch and I'm under a lot of pressure.
UPDATE: I don't think it's the server side, I think ...
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I want static content cached, but browsers keep requesting it
I've got an IIS 7.5 site with caching turned on for javascript and css content directories. All requests to these files use a query string with the app version number, so I just want it to cache ...
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firefox and IE not rendering some web pages [closed]
I have an issue with Firefox (3.6) and IE (8) on my laptop. Both choke on some web sites. They start rendering some elements of the web page and then revert to render a blank screen. Subsequently, ...
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Nginx caching webpages? Users have to refresh everytime to see updates on the home and articles
we are having a problem with most of our servers with Nginx
+MySQL+PHP-FPM (and WordPress as the CMS): browsers don't show last versions of our webpages.
I'll explain it this way:
The homepage ...
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SSL Certificates: Multiple Single Domain vs Wildcard?
I'm my company we want to deploy SSL certificates to some websites we own, and our RADIUS server as well (Cisco ACS).
What is the practical difference from acquiring 5-10 single host certificates or ...
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Is the Last-Modified HTTP header required for browser caching?
When I unset the Last-Modified header in Apache (ETags are also disabled), Firefox (4.01) will not cache any file regardless of whether I set a future Expires header or enable the Cache-Control ...
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How can I change the incoming browser User Agent (UA) in Apache?
I have Apache2 running as a reverse proxy for several different web applications.
When a user accesses the Apache2 server, before the request is passed to the reverse proxy application, how can I ...
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redirection made by iptables take effect even after i removed the rule from the chain
for example i added the following rule to the PREROUTING chain:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d 210.210.210.210 -j DNAT --to-destination 200.200.200.200
(lets say that both of the ip addresses are ...
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Can't disable Enhanced Security Configuration after upgrading to IE9
I disabled ESC in Server Manager on 2008 R2, originally just for Administrators but have tried to disable it for users and Administrators to try and solve this problem. Despite it being completely ...
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Browser fails to load some websites with Static IP internet connection
We are using static IP internet connection and we have connected 4 computers with single internet connection using NAT/Router device. The problem is that when we try to load some websites, e.g. AWS, ...
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Will this situaton generate a warning from the browser?
I need to set up a domain/server/page with a ssl certificate.
let's call it
https://page.domain1.com
this will contain in an iframe content from
https://page2.domain2.com
Will this situation ...
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Is there a way to turn off client browser caching for specific websites?
This is a browser agnostic question but we're testing with IE9.
One of the web apps our users visit is being randomly cached and changes aren't showing up when they should. No other site has this ...
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htaccess config to block depending on browser agent
In one case i wish to block all Internet Explorer versions from my site using htaccess. I have read several guides but still can not get it to work. what is the most understanding way of doing it. If ...
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IE enhanced security configuration
I am on Windows Server 2008 R2, and disabled the enhanced security configuration for IE in server manager.
I have since upgraded to IE 9, and can no longer disable it.
It is set as disabled in ...
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server-side browser emulator? open source preferably
I'm working on an open source library, but some of the functionality requires that I emulate a browser. I hear it's possible to launch an instance of the browser, but if I'm running on linux, I don't ...
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Browser-level DNS settings, to work like the hosts file at system level
The web application we develop is doing certain things depending on the domain and subdomains in the address. To be able to develop and test everything on a local environment, one would need to bind ...
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how to get lost mailbox username [closed]
A few weeks ago i registered a new "temporary" gmail mailbox...unfortunatelly (and 'coz im so forgetful) i forgot my username.
Anyone could suggest me a program or plugin for mozilla which i can list ...
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Files on server don't show up in browser
I created a project in Eclipse, and did the setup in the terminal, adding the files to the server repository, (I'm running Linux Mint) and reloaded Apache.
Now when I try to view the index.php or any ...
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How to access Windows Server 2003-based server via browser?
I'm a novice in servers, and am trying to experiment and learn more about them. I have a Windows Server 2003 box that I would like to access the control panel or the local server site...ie ...
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How often does a browser need to perform a DNS lookup for then same site?
How often does a browser need to perform a DNS lookup for the same site?
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Why offer both a secured login page and a non-secured login page?
I note that the xp-dev.com website (delegated SVN space) offers a regular HTTP login page but this page then has link to a "secure login" which is a login page but under SSL.
I wonder what the point ...
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How can I display a webpage fullscreen and prevent any access to that machine?
I need to display a webpage based dashboard for CI in our office. This needs to run fullscreen but all access to that machine (Windows XP) should be disabled.
I'd thought of using a screensaver to ...
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Can you download files on your dedicated server using your computer
I have a dedicated server running CentOS 5, and I have a computer at home that runs windows 7.
For a projects I need to download a large set of large files on the server. Now the problem I am facing ...
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Microsoft Browser Choice in a corporate environment
It seems that Microsoft has enabled their Browser Choice system for EU customers today, several news outlets are reporting end users seeing the message and there are screenshots coming through on ...
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Detecting the user location
I visit a page with my firefox browser and i see this message "You appear to be outside the United States or its territories.". Also on http://www.fmylife.com/ they appear to detect the state/province ...
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How to Distinguish “Pre-Fetched” Page Requests From Ordinary Requests?
"Pre-Fetching" might not be the most widely-used term, but in any event, i'm referring to browser plugins that request pages prior to an actual request from the user. (For instance, when a new page ...
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How do I fix the applet exceptions on new Tomcat install (with Apache)?
I got my Tomcat install to work and now I can receive JSP generated HTML web pages. However, my applet, that works in 'appletViewer' is throwing exceptions. I suspect one of two area for problems in ...
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Setting browser home page administratively
We have a requirement to use a single browser homepage across our whole organisation. This isn't a problem for our IE users, thanks to group policy, but we have several Firefox/Opera/Chrome users, ...
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Using multiple internet connections?
I have two connections at work. One that I use to get to the Internet and the other to the company related stuff. The problem is that when I want to connect to the work related stuff, I need to switch ...
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How *much* server resources needed to make a *decent* cross-browser testing server
In my company we need to test our website (that we develop), On many browsers including:
IE6
IE7
IE8
Safari
Firefox 2
Firefox 3
Chrome
This is a very time consuming task since we test it in many ...
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PXE bootable browser
I would like to have a system that boots using PXE and only runs a single application: A graphical webbrowser with a hardcoded homepage that loads upon opening.
I could use the Knoppix Terminal ...
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Windows Server 2008 Outbound problem
Our server was compromised a few days ago through a FTP server that we didn't update in time. I think I have it under control now but there's still one issue. Inbound connection are working fine but ...
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Unable to connect within Internet explorer
Hello I am trying to access a network connection on my local network.
The URL I try was:
http://testapp/Aug20/test.com/goLogin.cfm
I am able to open it on Mozilla. But when I try that on Windows ...
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HTTP Request Corruption
On a site that receives a very high amount of traffic some small percent of requests come like this:
http://cheezburger.com/ScriptResource.axd?d=zaVpgH63ePt90pn</a> ...
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Is there away to chain proxy.pac files via URL?
It is necessary for several of our laptops to operate on both our own and customer-based networks. This often involves switching proxy settings, which we did via a custom proxy.pac file at first ...
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How to set an expiry date for static files which are deliverd through SSL (IIS6)?
Is it possible to set expiry dates of static files served with IIS6 over SSL? I'm trying to deliver javascript and css files in such a way that they can be cached by a browser.
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Why does a browser dialog come up when an xmlhttprequest sends the wrong / no auth?
How come the major browsers all bring up a login dialog when an xmlhttprequest does auth wrong or doesn't send it? I mean isn't this poor UI? Now a days it seems like a lot of people try http auth in ...
