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The Request/Response Cycle
When User A decides he want to pay a visit to http://example.com/ it all begins with a Request. A short moment later he is given a Response. In this cycle Request-Response a lot is going on, in ...
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How to persist temporary data over multiple HTTP requests?
In our webapplication we have a list of questions that have to be answered by the user. These questions are served to the user one by one and will be saved once the last question has been answered.
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Choosing how to approach Geocoding Requests
I am about to begin writing a program in c# that will read Addresses from a source file create a Geocoding request, sent it to Google Maps API, get the response choose the coordinates from the xml and ...
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Security comparison between xmlHttpRequest and HttpRequest
Is there a difference between HttpRequest and xmlHttpRequest in terms of security? Is one more secure than the other?
Is it more secure to send important data such as passwords via HttpRequest than ...
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NDIS Driver Filter VS API Hooking
I've seen many developpers asking for "How to intercept in/out HTTP packets ", "How to modify them on the fly".. the most "clean" answer i've seen is to make a kernel-mode-driver filter from the ...
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Why shouldn't a GET request change data on the server?
All over the internet, I see the following advice:
A GET should never change data on the server- use a POST request for that
What is the basis for this idea?
If I make a php service which ...
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Catching incoming HTTP Requests on server side with Node.js
I want to implement a server side application catching incoming http requests with a certain header.After catching the request it extracts information about type of HTTP request (GET,HEAD,PUT,POST ...
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Is the use of “utf8=✓” preferable to “utf8=true”?
I have recently seen a few URIs containing the query parameter "utf8=✓". My first impression (after thinking "mmm, looks cool") was that this could be used to detect a broken character encoding.
So, ...
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How can I send audio input as chunked HTTP?
I am trying to create an interface with an external server, and don't know where to start. I would need to take audio as input to my computer, and send it to the remote server as a chunked HTTP ...
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Http handler for classic ASP application for introducing a layer between client and server
I've a huge classic ASP application where in thousands of users manage their company/business data. Currently this is not multi-user so that application users can create users and authorize them to ...
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REST and redirecting the response
I'm developing a RESTful service. Here is a map of the current feature set:
POST /api/document/file.jpg (creates the resource)
GET /api/document/file.jpg (retrieves the resource)
DELETE ...
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How to trim all incoming values in an HTTP Post request?
I have an HTML form, with more than 30 fields in it. When this form is submitted to the server, all of the values of the fields should be trimmed. In other words, no value should start/end with any ...
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How can I best implement 'cache until further notice' with memcache in multiple tiers?
the term "client" used here is not referring to client's browser, but client server
Before cache workflow
1. client make a HTTP request -->
2. server process -->
3. store parsed results into ...
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HTTP requests/responses analyser for Android
When using Firefox on my PC, for example, HTTP analysis is quite easy using for example the Net tab of Firebug. GETs, POSTs, etc., all there.
What would be the best technique to see the HTTP ...
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Handling requests RESTfully?
There is a push in modern scripting frameworks to use RESTful request routing instead of a one-size-fits-all URL path routing.
respond('GET', '/posts', callback);
respond('POST', ...
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An application to get statistical data about HTTP Request/Response
I'm looking for an application which takes the address of a website, browses that website, and provides reports based on some user-defined criteria about the HTTP requests/responses. For example, this ...
