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Alternatives to wireshark? [closed]
What would be a good option to troubleshoot an interaction of browser with a server besides wireshark?
I mean being able to see what the browser sends and receives.
Is firebug a good alternative or is ...
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HTTP Communications- Browser not receiving all data [migrated]
I have set up a server with my homemade http code on it. My code binds to a port(80) and then listens for requests on that port. My response is sent in pieces using multiple send() calls. If I access ...
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Sophos access a webserver from the web
I have an web server(IIS) behind an SOPHOS UTM 9
I have setup the Web Application Firewall feature
It is a completely fresh install. No other settings have been eddied.
When I Try to access the ...
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Issue setting environment variable in apache httpd.conf
I'm trying to figure out why I can set a string literal in httpd.conf using SetEnv:
SetEnvIf anothertest ^$ something=sometext
But I can't assign the contents of another variable:
SetEnvIf ...
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FCGI or HTTP for serving web apps behind reverse proxy?
Which protocol (HTTP or FCGI) is better and more efficient for serving web apps behind reverse proxy?
Precisely I have following:
internet ------- Nginx ------ web app in Go lang
HTTPS ...
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Redirect HTTP to HTTPS without a web server
I'm running an OpenVPN AS server on a VPS and the server itself has a web interface accessible through HTTPS. I'd like to redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS without having to install a web server for ...
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1answer
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Forcing a specific HTTP URL request through web proxy
I need to force one specific HTTP request through a web proxy whereas the rest of the HTTP requests should directly go to the web server.
I can use error code 305 Use Proxy response to redirect my ...
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How to allow clients from virtual network connect to ubuntu web-server hosted on VirtualBox?
I have a web-app running on VirtualBox Ubuntu VM. And also I have a virtual network with users which I want to let use this web-app.
Software for virtual network called 'Remobo'. In VM network ...
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I can't connect to my WAMP server from a client on the same network
Usually I would manually set up Apache and PHP but this time I thought I would go for the WAMP alternative.
I've set up WAMP and it's working perfectly fine on the host machine.
If I try and access ...
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securing server to server http post [closed]
In my website, I accept data submission from few restricted websites using HTTP POST method. We exchange some secure key to ensure that correct source is sending data.
But is there any way to ensure ...
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3answers
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How to redirect from HTTPS to HTTP before server error?
I used to operate a website with an SSL certificate, but have stopped using the SSL certificate. The problem is that most of the external links to the website use the https:// prefix.
I have tried ...
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How does a webserver handle a connection lost?
How does a web server handle a lost connection, for example the client sends a request and due to some problem got disconnected from the server before the latter could reply with a response, what does ...
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Varnish. Wrong outgoing IP?
I have the following:
backend default {
.host = "127.0.0.1";
.port = "8080";
}
acl purge {
"127.0.0.1";
}
sub vcl_recv {
#cloudflare
remove req.http.X-Forwarded-For;
if ...
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Lots of 408 Request Timed Out from same IPs
Web server: Nginx.
Checking our log files, there are many log entries of connections that:
take 59-61 seconds
send an empty request (or at least none is logged)
result in a 408 response (request ...
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4answers
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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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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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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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How to make Apache return a custom page on a 400 error with malformed host headers?
I think what I was asking for was a bit hard to understand, so, I am trying to make it simpler...
I need my server to have a custom 400 error page when it receives a request with a malformed host ...
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1answer
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configuring varnish, and document root directory of varnish
due to heavy load and disk issue we are going to use varnish webserver
we have worked on nginx and apache webserver
we heard that varnish is little more fast because it store web pages in memory ...
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1answer
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Can one rely on Apache sanitizing URLs?
I set up Apache with mod_wsgi in a default installation, with a very simple test application test.wsgi that goes like this:
def application(environ, start_response):
status = '200 OK'
output ...
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4answers
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HTTP resource caching / fetching
I'm trying to optimise a page, and I'm seeing some strange behaviour. Each time I click on a link to the page, all resources are fetched from the server, responding with 200s. However, when I refresh ...
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What is responsible for Connect/Send/Wait in a HTTP request?
Services like pingdom and Google speed analyze the time consumed for reading a HTTP file. This includes
DNS: Obviously, DNS management to interpret the namespaces is responsible.
Connect: ???
Send: ...
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How to log latency from remote sites to web server?
I have a web server that works great for North American users, but users from Asia will have problems every once in a while. I need to collect some data and the first set is to get some trending for ...
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serving logs via HTTP
Here is what i am trying to achieve: I have a few Linux servers that have my web App deployed on. Currently my development team access the web app, run their test cases and then SSH into my Linux ...
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1answer
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Lighttpd: Redirect specific location and sub-locations from HTTP to HTTPS (without using domain name)
I would like to redirect a specific section of a website from HTTP:// to HTTPS:// using Lighttpd.
I've been looking at this
Lighttpd wiki entry, but the examples don't work the way I want.
I have ...
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2answers
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Web server response degrades even though it doesn't seem busy
I'm running Apache on a dedicated Windows 2008 server with a back-end process connected to Apache via FASTCGI. The back-end process is actually a game engine. Everything is working fine but I've ...
2
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1answer
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Basic understanding about load balancer
I am running a http webserver that is connected to a backend database. Now if a client generates 100 threads and tries to contact that webserver through a loadbalancer, I get around 32ms delay. But ...
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1answer
517 views
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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1answer
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What is the benefit to having a network's HTTP traffic sent out on a different IP than HTTPS?
I've noticed that some traffic coming to my web sites reports a different source IP depending on whether or not the connection is secure. I have two different hostnames, one of which is HTTP, the ...
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IIS: removing the Server HTTP header without URLScan
(Windows 2003 R2, IIS 6)
Is there anyway to disable the "Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0" HTTP header that doesn't involve installation or URLScan? Our initial testing showed some problems with URLScan ...
2
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1answer
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Proxy HTTP requests to servers on different ports, using subdomain
Say I have a minimalist Python web server running with several instances, each with different ports specified as command line arguments.
I'd like requests to my server to be redirected like this, ...
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Should a web server care about IPv6 compatibility?
Are there any IPv6 clients in the real world? If not, is there any other reason to support IPv6?
(My understanding is that with the advent of WANs and such IPv6 is not necessary, hence extremely low ...
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slow http connection in LAN
I have a weird problem I'm trying to solve, but can't find out how. I found that problem when trying to access a php page and only the basic html and css were loaded but the flash didn't. when I tried ...
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How Can I Log Outbound HTTP Requests From My Web Applications?
One of our apps is calling a third-party webservice which has recently been switched to a different URI. We need to investigate this to try and see where the old address is being used (the code/config ...
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HTTP 404 Checking Service
I'm looking for an online service that crawls your site reliably and reports back on HTTP 404s, Page not Found errors. I don't want to install any software but just get an e-mail when a 404 is present ...
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gzip compression good or bad?
I have a server that currently does a lot of processing in my application and the target users are those who have a very good internet connection.
The output that is sent from the server is always ...
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HTTP Hostname to IP Address Routing
I currently have the following network setup:
Router/Firewall > IIS Web Server
When a HTTP request comes through, IIS will look at the host header and decided which website to return.
My problem ...
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Processing files from a Content Distribution Network problem
From what I understand that CDNs are meant to physically cache your static files in multiple regions closer to your users. However, I've noticed a few websites that when a page is requested from their ...
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partial responses from remote server
I'm posting this question here, but I'm not 100% sure where the problem lies. I have a site hosted through Media Temple that I'm developing. It's started to continually give me http 206 responses ...
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Is reading the HTTP GET response enough to know if the server is up?
I want to make sure the site is UP and running. Is reading the HTTP GET Response enough?
What does services like PingDom test?
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Serving static web files off a non-standard port
I'm close to deploying a Django project to production. I'm looking over some infrastructure decisions. Something that came up was serving static files with a different server such as lighttpd.
...
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Web Server (Intranet) Availability Test Script/Program
After rebooting a number of web servers (around 40), I would like to be able to quickly test each one to ensure that they are all up, running and will return an HTTP 200 code when called.
Please can ...
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Use a reverse proxy do record all incoming HTTP request, then execute it in a clone server for performance testing
A few weeks ago I went to a presentation where a guy said that in his company he used a reverse proxy that records all incoming http requests to the production server. Then he can execute them on ...
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Kerberos Authentication for Webservers
Before I blindly jump on "trial an error" tests, I'd like to ask some general questions on Kerberos Authentication for Webservers. I want to evaluate what's possible with Kerberos. The main benefit ...
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1answer
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Pros and Cons of Keep-Alive from Web Server Side
Keep-Alive connection feature in HTTP protocol is meant to reduce TCP connection hits to web server. It should be able to improve web server performance. However, I found that some web servers ...
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Getting apache to respond to http broadcasts
I was wondering if there is a way to configure Apache to respond to http requests sent to the broadcast address (ie. 192.168.1.255). Thanks
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How to make HTTP Cache Headers Work
Can someone please help me with a HTTP caching question?
I thought that if I set the "Expires" and "Cache-Control:max-age" request headers, then a browser wouldn't make a GET request until after the ...
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How do I capture and playback http web requests against multiple web servers?
My overall goal is to not interrupt a production system while capturing HTTP Posts to a web application so that I can reverse engineer the telemetry coming from a closed application. I have control ...
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How to serve HTTP filenames with special characters?
Take the following blog page as a case:
http://www.roney.com.br/2010/06/20/estados-do-brasil-um-pais-que-precisa-se-unir/
!Careful, it has tons of youtubes embedded, so is a slow load! It is a ...
