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HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol and is the protocol used to transfer information around the World Wide Web.

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About monitoring a server (and a HTTP status of 200)

This is probably a very silly question, but I'm new to this. I am currently learning about system administration, and was asked to set basic monitoring in place (that checks a website returns HTTP 200)...
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Force http on single page with site wide https is in place

On my website, I have one page that loads content in iframe form other sources and hence cannot have an http connection. I have an SSL installed and have a site wide https forced on all urls. I am ...
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Can't access nginx from outside server

Here I am again with yet again another strange error with nginx. I am running a server with debian and nginx as webserver. Everything was working fine until it suddenly stopped accepting connections ...
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apache 2.4.7:enable DELETE http method [duplicate]

I've tried to enable DELETE http method for educational scope but didn't reached the goal ... I've read a lot of documentation but don't understand where and do I must set it. First of all where is ...
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Access to Proxy Protocol address within HAProxy

I am running HAProxy that is receiving layer 4 proxy protocol from an upstream source. I have a need to create a custom HTTP header with the address contained there. I can't seem to find how I can ...
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How to select different backend based on URI when using "mode tcp"

I am using haproxy version 1.6.2 I have enabled http2 using the config below which I need to use "mode tcp". But once I have switched from "mode http" to "mode tcp" I couldn't use acl path_beg to ...
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Enabling both http and https in apache 2 with defaults redirection to https while enabling http

I want to configure my apache2 server as www.example.com site can be view as http and also https. Another thing i need that if i type one "example.com" it will go for https://www.example.com and if i ...
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Caching large files transparently over HTTP

I have a rather peculiar server set up to work with: I have files stored on an HTTP accessible server (Windows Azure Storage - about 800gb of content) but must serve them to people from a different ...
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Linux, simple http proxy

I have a linux server running in a data center that has some extra bandwidth and resources. I'd like to set up a proxy service so that I can route all my http/https traffic from home through it. I ...
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Track web application access through windows server

I have a web application running on Amazon EC2 accessed on the port 80. I would like to track the users who have accessed my application via windows server log. However when i go on the logs i can ...
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Apache 2.2.22 sporadically Changing POST requests from Safari 8,9 to GET

I have had several observations of Safari 8 and 9 sending POST requests to two different Apache 2.2.22 instances which are then passed on to a back-end REST API as GET requests. These happen ...
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Nginx as a caching proxy: Trying a second upstream if first returns 404

For using nginx as a caching proxy, is there a way to configure 2 upstream servers in a way that it always tries the first one unless that one returns a 404, and only in that case it will try the ...
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How to setup an FTP server on Linux that will use an API for authentication rather that a static list of users? [closed]

I'd like to have an FTP server on a Unix machine that will be able to query a certain API (probably via HTTP or local shell script) in order to authenticate the client. It would be enough if there is ...
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Thousands of requests with non-existent domains as HTTP_REFERER [duplicate]

For the last few days one of my websites has been receiving hundreds of requests per minute with non-existent random domains as HTTP_REFERER and from different IPs (therefore using deny from IP is not ...
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Is it safe to serve HTTP/HTTPS over ports 8080/8443

Due to an infrastructure limitation, one of the proposed solutions for serving an HTTP service to the world is to offer it over ports 8080 and 8443. My concern is that some users may not be able to ...
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Tomcat accepting HTTP from Apache, while Apache accepting HTTPS from user, does tomcat need to be HTTPS enabled too?

My application serves html pages through Apache server to user and it ssl-https enabled. These pages makes ajax request to my backend application running on tomcat container. Tomcat is not ssl enabled ...
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How to allow Apache PUT method to directory

I would like to enable Apache 2.4.7 to allow PUT to specific directory. Config below gives 405 error code in access log after PUT request. <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /var/www/default ...
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Serve http (port 80) and https (port 443) on same VirtualHost

I need to setup my VirtualHost on Apache to serve on both http and https (using standard ports) If I enable the SSL Engine (as per below) - I get an error when on port 80. The reason is, parts of ...
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why i cannot download jdk from oracle web site directly without AuthParam?

that is download with the following command, why it fails to download that file? wget http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/6u35-b10/jdk-6u35-linux-i586.bin the following command works, but ...
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IIS - https:// works while http://host:443 doesn't

This is my site: http://scyk.pl When you go https://scyk.pl Everything is ok, but when you go http://scyk.pl:443 Connection is timing out. I am running IIS7, today I configured ssl, and I don't ...
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I can access http, https on server, but can't ping the server behind sonicwall tz500

I am not sure if this is possible or not. I have set up some web servers and ftp servers that are statically NATted behind a sonicwall tz500. I can access all via ftp, http, https. I have included ...
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Do Browsers implement the HTTP protocol?

My understanding of the TCP/IP stack is that the Application layer (layer 4) consists of protocol implementations such as HTTP. Do user-agents like web browsers implement this HTTP protocol ...
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Do HTTP/1.1 persistent connections timeout?

It is my understanding that HTTP/1.1 persistent connections stay open until the client closes them (via a close request header). If this header is not present, does the host close this connection ...
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Range requests time out after 10GB in apache or java servlet

There seems to be an issue with serving large 10+GB files with byte-range requests on our RHEL5 64-bit server. The issue that I am noticing is that range requests are timing out for ranges that are ...
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Capturing un-encrypted HTTPS traffic using wireshark

I am trying to capture HTTPS traffic between a client (windows machine) and a server. I would like to do this before the traffic is encrypted as I would like to analysis its contents. Is there an ...
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Send IIS http error code without sending stacktrace

I have an ASP.NET based API that needs to send http error codes from the server to the client as they occur. I do not wish to send the entire detailed stock error message containing the stacktrace to ...
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Force HTTPS with AWS Elastic load balancer

I need to redirect all incoming HTTP traffic to HTTPS on my elastic load balancer. I tired using Apache mod_rewrite: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https RewriteRule !/...
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HAProxy dropping same HTTP resoponse 200OK everytime

I would like to ask question and appreciate if someone can help me to find solution. I am using haproxy ver 1.4.15 [root@HAProxy tmp]# haproxy -v HA-Proxy version 1.5.14 2015/07/02 Copyright 2000-...
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Printing origin servers name in Apache log

I have configured a reverse proxy setup with Apache as the reverse proxy server and JBoss nodes as origin servers. How do i get the name of origin servers logged in to Apache log. I don't see any ...
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Corrupted files when downloading with HTTP

With my UMTS connection most archives > 50 MB are corrupted when downloading them via HTTP. If I switch to HTTPS the problem is gone. The problem should not reside in my network, because I have an ...
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HTTP/HTTPS routing according to URL [closed]

Hy everyone, I'm not a networking newbie, but a 'stackoverflow' newbie for sure, so I apologize in advice if i screwed-up category or group, but there seems that all this stuff is based on tags. I ...
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HAProxy HTTP Response "Other"

The HAProxy documentation lists the possibility of returning non-conforming HTTP status codes: hrsp_other [.FBS]: http responses with other codes (protocol error) Are these simply error codes ...
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Windows File System over HTTP

It looks like you can mount a one drive folder, see: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/34847-onedrive-map-onedrive-pc-windows-8-1-a.html Question is what kind of file system is this? How can I ...
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Dozens of identical HTTP requests from Chrome on Android

I'm seeing an odd pattern in my HTTP access log. Sometimes a mobile Chrome browser makes dozens of seemingly redundant HTTP requests to get the same page. What could cause this behavior? A buggy app ...
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How to stop all sites being redirected to SSL on IIS7.5

I have a web server with a number of sites hosted on it. One of those sites requires SSL and the redirection is handled within the web.config of that site. The rest of the sites do not have an SSL ...
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On-the-fly decoding HTTP bodies on Linux?

My wish is to monitor HTTP exchanges between my server and a browser. At present time, I use the localhost because I'm developping the app. I installed and used tcpflow and found it quite useful but ...
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firewalld errors when adding http

I'm trying to add http to the public zone in firewalld on CentOS 7 (new digitalocean image). Someone please correct me if this is not the right/secure way to make my websites accessible through ...
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Detect traffic loss between OS and NGINX

I have a analytics-tracking linux server (Ubuntu on EC2) running NGINX & Redis (this project - https://github.com/FTBpro/count-von-count) When I go over the NGINX logs, I see that the traffic is ...
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iptables search in web content

How can I set an iptables rule (ex:in input chain) that check the http packet's content and block that contain my html or css or javascript code? For example: block sites that return in their response ...
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Powershell Download via HTTP using Proxy and Checking Remote File Size Fails on Second File

I have a powershell script I'm developing, which will download files from a HTTP server going through a proxy and including a UN/PW on the server. I have files downloading fine, but some files are ...
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get rid of http 304 errors in fiddler [closed]

How to get rid of 304 error Request Headers : GET /scripts/PO/wildsearch.html HTTP/1.1 AntiForgeryFormToken: ...
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Anyone know what could cause this pattern of http requests?

It's from a registered user on my website. Activity begins with normal looking URLs, which correlates to manual browsing, but then that stops. After that I get the same GUID-based requests every 3 ...
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Icinga: http check without ping'ing

I'm setting up Icinga for the first time. I'd like to monitor websites, not their hosts (i.e. no ping, only http). I've created a template like this: template Host "generic-website" { ...
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Domain is forcing HTTPS automatically when accessing by HTTP

I have a project based on Nginx + Node.js. When I'm trying to access it by my domain, it automatically redirects from HTTP to HTTPS and I get a 404 because my deployment is not ready for SSL. When it ...
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Remote data service: speed concern

I would like to provide an online service that consists of the following: A proprietary database Queries to the database that not only ask for data, but more importantly sophisticated calculations on ...
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Can't make SPDY work on Apache 2.2.22 (Ubuntu 12.04 server)

I'm trying to enable this apache module. I did everything this documentation from Google says: https:// developers.google.com/speed/spdy/mod_spdy/ However, if I use "SPDY indicator" chrome extension ...
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Is it possible to use SPDY module for non-secure connections?

SPDY module is designed to only work with secure connections (SSL-enabled websites). I want to know there is any fork of that project (specifically MOD_SPDY for apache) which bypasses SSL and works ...
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Tinyproxy to redirect http traffic to https

I'm attempting to redirect all http traffic towards https traffic. I currently have stunnel listening on port 443 which does it's job well. I have now installed Tinyproxy which I want to listen on ...
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Do network administrators block outgoing traffic to not-well-know ports? [closed]

I've written a Java server to listen on port 49474. My client runs on Android phones all over the US. Of course, they will be connecting from a variety of networks: home, work, school, library, ...
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Apache stops responding to http requests -- https continues to work

Okay. Very strange problem that I'm having here. I just recently updated to Apache 2.4.2 from 2.2.17, mostly to try to get name-based SSL VirtualHosts working (although they should have been working ...

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