HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol and is the protocol used to transfer information around the World Wide Web.
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Real-time layer 7 (http.request.uri) filtration on freebsd
I have a freebsd 9.0 router with 250-300Mbit/s traffic,
and need to filter small list of pages (http.request.uri).
I do not care about tor, anonymizers, proxy etc. Just prevent direct access from my ...
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Any workaround to Subversion HTTP download resume limitation?
I recently encounter a problem described in http://stackoverflow.com/q/12365109/151453 . Since the Subversion repository files served by HTTP(svn 1.7) does not support download resume, is there any ...
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serving mp3s to mobile devices is flooding nginx with partial requests
I am serving mp3s with a minimalistic nginx server. What I see in my log files is that there are a lot of requests, in particular from AppleCoreMedia and sometimes Android useragents, that flood the ...
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Want to open an inbound HTTP other than port # 80 on my AWS medium instance
I have been able to open port 80 for inbound HTTP traffic on my medium AWS instance running Windows 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5
I want to be able to open another port (say 8000) for inbound HTTP traffic. ...
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What happens on this typical http request?
I am using Wireshark to look at all packet exchanges between my client computer and a webserver.
I am just connecting to a server that gives me a 403 error (just as an example). The packets I ...
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What are the pros and cons of SSH and HTTP for a git server?
I want to setup a git server. I have found several how-to's, well detailed.
Some describe the installation for a git-server accessible thru Ssh, while others, accessible thru HTTP. ( Others even ...
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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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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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HTTP, TCP, UDP and connectionless
I am a bit confused with HTTP lately. Some facts are that TCP can operate connection orientated or connectionless this I understand. TCP though is connection-oriented while UDP is connectionless ...
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What's the difference of running ab locally and remotely?
I was benchmarking my site with apache ab and I noticed that the response time had big differences when running ab on the server and running ab on a client box remotely.
So what's the biggest ...
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Do HTTP reverse proxies typically enable HTTP Keep-Alive on the client side of the proxied connection and not on the server side?
HAProxy has the ability to enable HTTP keep-alive on the client side (client <-> HAProxy) but disable it on the server side (HAProxy <-> server).
Some of our clients connect to our web service ...
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Configure SilkPerformer to work with Fiddler
Does anyone know how to capture a Silk Performer HTTP request, using Fiddler?
We can't seem to capture this information no matter what we try (it seems like it ignores all proxy settings).
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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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Large, high performance object or key/value store for HTTP serving on Linux
I have a service that serves images to end users at a very high rate using plain HTTP. The images vary between 4 and 64kbytes, and there are 1.300.000.000 of them in total. The dataset is about 30TiB ...
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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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What is the difference between TRIGGER_STATUS and FINAL_STATUS for HTTP request status codes in IIS 7.5?
I'm looking at a server running IIS 7.5 that is throwing generic HTTP 500s for some requests, with no further error reporting or substatus code evident anywhere. So I enabled Failed Request Tracing ...
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curl XPUT returning HTTP 500 error message
I have added the following changes in nginx configuration.
server {
listen 8080;
root /usr/share/nginx/www;
client_body_temp_path /tmp/;
dav_methods PUT DELETE MKCOL COPY MOVE;
...
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Proxy connections to certain addresses on Linux
I need to find a way to proxy all connections to example.com through a proxy server, it needs to work on the command line, as well as automatically within Python (much like exporting http_proxy ...
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How can I configure apache to send an email on every HTTP error 500
I have some server applications running on apache2; Ruby on Rails, PHP and others.
In all cases I would like apache to send me an email whenever apache responds a HTTP error 500 Internal server ...
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Enable gzip on Nginx
Yes, I know that there are a lot of other questions that seem exactly like this out there. I think I must've looked all of them. Twice. In desparation, I'm adding another in case my specific ...
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Configure tomcat behind loadbalancer to respond on HTTP and HTTPS
I have 2 tomcat machines behind a load balancer on Amazon EC2. Until now The load balancer was configured to respond only on https. So in order to access our services you would go to https://url. ...
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Does apaches keep alive time-out reset every time a request is received?
The title of this question is pretty self explanatory, but:
Does apaches keep alive timeout reset (as in, start again) every time a request is received?
So for example, assume we have a 60 second ...
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How To go fully IPv6 with Cloud Flare, a web server with both ipv4 and ipv6?
I have setup an Nginx server in a machine which have both ipv4 and ipv6 addresses. Currently, its connected to CloudFlare and only use ipv4. I have 1 ipv4 address assigned to the web server.
Now what ...
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How to enable HTTP POST requests in IIS7?
I'm totally new to IIS7. I get a 400 error when doing any POST request. However GET requests work fine. I'm using PHP for processing but i assume that IIS is missing some configuration to allow POST
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Why can I only view images on my website through the site's local IP?
I have an Apache2 server running on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I can load the index page fine through my public IP, but I can't retrieve any images. I've tried Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and wget, but ...
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How to enable HTTP loopback connections?
I running CentOS release 5.8 (Final) for my WordPress blog (www.deluxeblogtips.com). I have a backup plugin BackupBuddy, and it says:
HTTP Loopback Connections are not enabled on this server
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“Protocol mismatch” when trying to access tunneled HTTP port
I'm using Mac 10.7.4 and I have an HTTP service running on port 8082 of a remote server, which I can only access through an intermediate server. So I execute these tunnel commands
ssh -L ...
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HAProxy - HTTP Server error detection
I want to use HAProxy for load balancing and failover of an Apache-PHP application hosted on many identical backend servers. Is there any way of detecting a failed node on HAproxy and removing it from ...
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standalone https as http reverse proxy
I want to do this:
HTTP client -> [proxy] -> HTTPS server. Possible?
But I want it as a command line program that turns a port on localhost into an HTTP listener for a remote HTTPS server, so ...
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Allow only one request per ip and url
Using a htaccess file or sending special headers from php, is there any way to allow only one http request by ip and url? I mean, an user could make multiple request simultaneously, but not to the ...
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nginx access log as json with query string key value pairs
I want to make a custom nginx access log that is not only JSON but also has JSON key:value pairs for every key=value in the query.
Making a JSON log for nginx is easy:
log_format main '{'
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Adding and using header (HTTP) in nginx
I am using two system (both are nginx load balancer and one act as an backup). I want to add and use few http custom headers. Please give your suggestion
e.g
upstream upstream0{
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301 redirect Rule For Load Balance F5 BigIp
I have a load balancer F5 Big ip for my website. Currently, I am having 302 redirect in place; however, I wanted to apply 301 but dont know how.
For example:
My website (abc.com) when typed 302 ...
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Apache not sending headers on certain SSL errors
If I make a http:// request over port 443 on our server, Apache is sending a plaintext error page with no headers, which most implementations of the protocol will interpret as a 200/
As far as I can ...
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Wiki as Intranet and Network Shares
I have implemented JSPWiki on our local intranet. Several people have requested the ability to access intranet files from within the Wiki. Using the file:// URI is not really possible due to security ...
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PHP Fatal error: Class 'PDO' not found
PHP Fatal error: Class 'PDO' not found in /home/bd/public_html/app/webroot/Cake/Model/Datasource/Database/Mysql.php on line 177
PHP INFO:
PDO
PDO support => enabled
PDO drivers => sqlite, ...
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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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Fence node in apache traffic server
I'm currently looking into Apache Traffic Server as a tool for providing better availability of web services.
But looking at the manual I can't see any reference to how I can pro-actively fence a ...
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put some value in front of webSite Adress [closed]
i want to put "site" in front of url but open YYY!
1- some Websites open if i add any string in front of them ! like
site.YYY . 2- i can use site:pas@YYY to put it in . 3- i
am able to create ...
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Apache not calling the Smart HTTP CGI
I'm setting up a git server with git-http-backend and Smart HTTP but Apache doesn't seem to be calling the Smart HTTP CGI:
$ curl ...
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Error while trying to connect to HTTP server with netcat
I am trying to connect to the Nginx server which is running on my localhost at port 80 using netcat. But I am getting the same error page all the time inspite of whichever header(GET, POST, HEAD) i ...
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HTTP header for indicating originating server behind load balancer
For debugging purposes, we would like to configure our pool of load balanced web servers to output an HTTP header identifying the "true" server which served the request. However, we don't know what ...
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Unable to acces Nagios from Ec2
I have installed Nagios by following this tutorial here.
But when I tried to connect to localhost/nagios3 using curl from console, making sure that Nagios is installed and running(since I'm getting ...
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Denying Favicon requests and sending a 404 response using HaProxy
I am trying to block all favicon requests and send back a 404.
I use haproxy in front of 2 node js servers that acts as a web service.
There is no need for node to handle these requests so I wanted to ...
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How visible is my /var/www to the outside world?
I suppose this is more of a house keeping question, but here it goes.
If I create a backup file of my index.html called index.html.bak, is it possible that someone from the outside using http on my ...
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Why do a few of my customers lose HTTP connectivity for brief periods?
I am running IIS 7.5 on Server 2008 R2 virtualized on a Windows Core 2008 R2 server on Intel server hardware sitting behind a Sonicwall firewall.
For a number of months now, we've had a trickle of ...
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Does IIS support HTTP basic auth and form auth at the same time?
preface: I am a web dev who knows apache servers quite well, but I have little to no knowledge of IIS or .NET
I work with a developer who has been avoiding a request to add a Basic Auth to a staging ...
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Nginx 413 error does not get to the browser
I think my situation is very similar to Why might a 413 not be flushed to the client immediately? , what is indented is where my situation is different
I have my local development server returning ...
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Mod Rewrite rule to edit cookies conditionally
Is it possible to use mod_rewrite to modify values in cookies based upon a condition? I am completely new to HTTP, but I have tried a thing or two. The only regex I know is Perl-style, my hopes are it ...
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iptables trafic limitation not working properly with http
I'm using those rules to limit/stop port scan.
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m recent --set
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m recent --update --seconds ...
