HTTP is just one communications protocol on the web. Others include: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) tcp User Datagram Protocol (UDP) udp Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) icmp Post Office Protocol (POP3) pop3 File Transfer Protocol (FTP) ftp Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) imap ...
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How do I set up lighttpd for x.509 client certificate authentication
So far I've had HTTPS working for a long time, so I don't think there are any trouble with the server certificates. Now I tried to add this to lighttpd.conf:
ssl.engine = "enable"
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130s timeout when accessing service exposed on HTTPS through HTTP
I have windows client application and windows service hosting a web service over HTTPS (on behind it uses standard http.sys). Everything is ok except the situation where user makes a mistake and uses ...
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Some SSL site can't be accessed when using VPNC
I use VPNC connected a Cisco VPN in router, everything ok but some https site like https://api.path.com can't be accessed, the http connection has no problem.
curl look like:
curl -vvv ...
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Can ping ec2 server (ubuntu/apache) but don't get response from http request
Background:
OS: ubuntu
Web Server: apache2
What works:
I can ping the server's elastic IP (and receive a response)
I can ssh into the server
What doesn't work:
I cannot get any sort of http ...
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SOLVED Configuring the hosts file to point to my server
I have a somewhat annoying problem in website development/deployment process; when I work locally on my server, the address of my program is localhost:8080/MYSERV/..., whereas when I deploy it, the ...
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Accessing request headers in a Squid redirector
I have a redirector enabled in my Squid config file as follows:
url_rewrite_program /etc/squid/redirector.php
I need to access the original HTTP request headers from within the redirector. I'm not ...
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55 views
Proxy http nginx for multiple websites
I have to configure a Nginx server wich will be used as http(s) proxy and caching like a Apache server with proxy_pass and proxy_pass_reverse directives.
The system will be like this :
The nginx ...
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How can a web server installed on the same host as the FTP server?
I have a situation here where I have to make ftp to be available like http://ftp.example.com instead of ftp.example.com. Somebody advised me to install a web server on the same host as FTP server. ...
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mod_rewrite in .htaccess causes header not to be applied - why?
Excerpt from <VirtualHost *:80> section in httpd.conf (goal: set Cache-Control for all JavaScript files):
<LocationMatch "\.js">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=290304000, public"
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Examples of 302 vs 303
What is the difference between a 302 and 303 response?
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
10.3.3 302 Found
10.3.4 303 See Other
Are these interchangeable or why would one be ...
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Why not use HTTP POST instead of SMTP? [closed]
I'm wondering why SMTP is implemented. I have found a few reasons that seem to make HTTP POST the easier protocol for sending e-mails:
no more need for SMTP protocol & mail server (replaced by ...
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Git push over http (using git-http-backend) and Apache is not working
I have desperately been trying to get push for git working through the "smart-http" mode using git-http-backend. However after many hours of testing and troubleshooting, I am still left with
error: ...
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The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error [migrated]
My xml http response is taking 150 Second to 200 Second for resolv this I try to gzip requst response but geting Error The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.
Please Help ...
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Central web login system for university
We have 300 hosts in our LAN. They use a linux server as default gateway. We need to send all traffic through a server machine which would then forward it to internet.
I want to add a central login ...
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1answer
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Unicorn behind ELB, no nginx
If I understand Unicorn right (and in particular from their philosophy doc) it seems like Unicorn was really designed to operate behind a reverse proxy like nginx.
My question is: can I drop nginx ...
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2answers
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Apache on Windows throwing 324 ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE
I have EasyPHP installed on Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition. Apache appears to be running fine. I can access /home (the defaul directory of EasyPHP). However, if I create a directory I get this ...
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wampserver2.2 ssl - how to make both http and https work
I followed this tutorial install SSL
http://guides.jlbn.net/setssl/setssl1.html
I setup up to localhost
after the configuration, I able to access HTTPS (https:// localhost/)
however, when I want to ...
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14 views
Ignoring HTTP 1.0 requests in IIS
Is there a way to ignore HTTP 1.0 requests in IIS (7.0)? I don't see any reason to accept requests that are not HTTP 1.1.
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2answers
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Meaning of message in access log file
I am seeing the issue in one of my web server access logs which is proxying to weblogic
...-0400] "GET /" 500 32
Can you suggest what this might mean. It is a sunone web server
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PHP-FPM and APC for shared hosting?
We are looking into finding a way to get APC to only create one cache per account / site. This can be done with Fastcgi (last update 2006…) but with Fastcgid APC will have to create multiple caches ...
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2answers
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Alternative to Port 80 for http
In Windows Server 2008 we can host multiple websites under a single IP by relying on Host headers. My problem is I have only one IP address and I want to dedicate it to a single application like ...
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4answers
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Controlling access to my API using SSH public key (not SSL)
I have the challenge of implementing an API to be consumed by relatively non-technical clients -- pasting some sample code into their WordPress or homegrown PHP site is probably as much as we can ask. ...
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1answer
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Is there any useful/funny HTTP redirect for all those vulnerability probes? [closed]
I'm sure your HTTP logs, like mine, are full of 404 errors of various probes for common vulnerabilities and such:
File does not exist: /www/XXXXXX.XX/data/email
File does not exist: ...
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Downloads from Bamboo server are slow, how can I debug this?
I have a Windows box running Bamboo, a continuous integration server. I can download files from it over HTTP, but they're really slow, like 80 kbps slow. I don't have any speed issues copying files ...
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Connecting to a HTTP URL over port 443
Is it possible to connect to a HTTP URL (for example, http://www.asdfg.com) over port 443?
Or only HTTPS URLs (for example, https://www.asdfg.com) can be connected through port 443?
I have a proxy ...
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DNS Redirection - no such thing, or is there?
Some domain registry like europeregistry.com allows users to buy and register a domain and set up a "redirection" to an existing website.
Is this redirection a function of DNS or has the registry ...
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strange server behavior: timeouts when requestor is another server
Maybe someone can explain some puzzling server behavior I witnessed.
I have a website that uses content from another server in a completely different organization. One component pulls a variable ...
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4answers
814 views
Can the IP address for an HTTP request be spoofed?
On a website I am building, I plan to log the IP addresses of submissions, just in case it's necessary. I don't mind proxies, but outright spoofing your IP address would defeat the purpose.
To ...
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3answers
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Run http server behind proxy
I've been trying to get lighttpd or apache2 (I prefer lighttpd) to work behind a proxy but no luck so far.
What I want is to run lighttpd (or port 80) behind a proxy, so that when someone goes to ...
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1answer
39 views
HTTP GET get HTTP/1.1 0 response code
Occasionally GET requests to my IIS7 server get a response code of HTTP/1.1 0
I've been trying to find some information on this, but so far I'm coming up empty.
I've only seen this sort of behavior ...
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2answers
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Alternatives to apache flood?
I've used apache flood in the past for simulating http traffic but I find the whole build (autoconf, libxml2 and libexpat dependencies) and configuration infrastructure (XML) to be problematic.
I'm ...
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HTTP TRACE in VIP host, but not in its subordinates
The company I work for has following configuration :
VIP : abc.example.com
Behind this VIP are two hosts binded :
1) foo.bar.com
2)abc.def.com
So if I type abc.example.com, then request goes to ...
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55 views
Non-HTTP traffic on port 80 across Cisco load balancer
Is it possible to configure port 80 on a Cisco load balancer as being general TCP, rather than specifically HTTP, in order to support more protocols on that port?
I am attempting to get Websockets ...
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Handling UTF-8 with BOM in HTTP
Say I have a script which at some point serves a plain text file as a content (right after "\n\n"). These files are provided by users, but I can expect they will be UTF-8. So I hard-wire ...
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1answer
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Good way to reverse proxy through a forward proxy
I have an app that uses HTTP to connect to a server but does not support using an HTTP proxy and I must use an HTTP proxy to get to the server.
I would like to set up a reverse proxy service (it's on ...
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1answer
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How do http proxies determine https traffic with a single port?
If a proxy receives the tcp packet, then the destination ip address and port are that of the proxy. In that case, I imagine the only way a proxy can still resolve the intended destination is either ...
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1answer
75 views
MongoDB REST interface not listening after update
I replaced the mongodb-10gen install with the Ubuntu package (mongodb-server, mongodb-client and dev).
apt-get install mongodb
Thereafter, I am now unable to connect to the REST interface, where ...
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How do I optimize TCP stack for HTTP server?
I have a HTTP server that serves only two kinds of page: about 10 KB and about 16 KB (both compressed, other files are from CDN). As the latency is quite high (ping takes more than 300 ms), I want to ...
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Why does mod_security require an ACCEPT HTTP header field?
After some debugging, I found that the core ruleset of mod_security blocks requests that don't have the (optional!) ACCEPT header field.
This is what I find in the logs:
ModSecurity: Warning. ...
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Why Wireshark does not recognize this HTTP response?
I have a trivial CGI script that outputs simple text content. It's written in Perl and using CGI module and it specifies only the most basic headers:
print $q->header(
-type ...
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3answers
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How to make ftp over http?
Ftp can be accessed by ftp://example.com
but I have seen people accessing ftp using http://ftp.example.com
How can I achieve this kind of functionality? Is there a way I can do this by installing ...
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1answer
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How to receive web page faster with resouce caching [closed]
When sending request on HTTP server which is flooded by other requests my request will
be in the queue and after some time server will send response. Now my question comes :
Would it help to make ...
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1answer
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using trickle to slow down browser
according to trickle's man page, http://linux.die.net/man/1/trickle i can limit the download speed of a process, e.g.
trickle -u 10 -d 20 ncftp
to Launch ncftp(1) limiting its upload capacity to 10 ...
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1answer
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HTTP Status Codes for Web Application Logic
This might be more of a PHP and SO question, but since it deals with HTTP codes, I thought I'd ask here first.
So I'm building a very simple user authentication backend that basically checks the ...
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118 views
Sending HTTP headers by webserver or PHP?
It is equally possible to send HTTP headers by webserver or script. I use PHP on Nginx. Is there any different to send HTTP headers (such as Cache-Control) by nginx or PHP?
Is it faster to send ...
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How can I setup my local Nginx server so I can edit the files?
I have my local development machine running Arch Linux, Nginx, PHP-FPM and MySQL.
In order for the websites I am working on to run the files need to be owned by the http user. The files are currently ...
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Is html or php header needed for gzip?
I use gzip module of nginx to compress documents. When gzip is enabled nginx will automatically send content-ending of gzip with HTTP headers, right?
Without adding any PHP header header() or HTML ...
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Strip referrer HTTP headers
I want to strip the Google referrer HTTP header.
I want the outgoing header fields to be sans Google (trying to deal with FakeAV google image search poisoning)
Not sure if this is possible with ISA ...
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1answer
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IIS 401.3 - Unauthorized on only 1 server out of 3 set up for network load balancing
Over the weekend our Server Admin set up two virtual Windows 2008 machines with IIS installed and set them up under NLB. I came in and changed the application pool the website was running under to ...
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4answers
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Is there a simple LDAP-to-HTTP gateway out there?
We have a local LDAP directory that provides basic contact information about our user community. We would like to integrate this into some third-party hosted services that allow us to implement ...
