http-headers

How to modify request headers in c#,ASP .NET.

I am working on a ASP .NET mVC project & i have to change HttpHeaders. see the foolowing code snippet: WebRequest req= HttpWebRequest.Create("myURL"); HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); req.Headers.Add("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.15) Gecko/2009101601 Firefox/3....

X-HTTP-Method-Override in jQuery?

How can I do an X-HTTP-Method-Override for an ajax request in jQuery? ...

Settings http headers in Java 6 SE httpserver

Hi, I try to publish Atom feed (generated with Rome) using Java 6 SE httpserver. For correct feed discovery in FireFox I need custom headers. This is my code: Headers headers=e.getRequestHeaders(); ArrayList<String>list=new ArrayList<String>(); list.add("application/atom+xml"); headers.put("content-type", list); e.sendResponseHead...

Python zlib not decodable when returned by an http response

I'm using Amazon S3 to serve static files. When the Content-Type is just 'text/css' and I haven't compressed the file, it is returned ok. If I try to zlib.compress() the contents that will be returned and change Content-Encoding to 'gzip', the browser cannot decode the result. In Chrome, the error is Error 330 net::ERR_CONTENT_DECODING...

C# Getting packet data

Hi, I've been trying to write a script that will sniff HTTP headers. So far I've got the socket bound to port 80 and packets seem to be received, but I can't get them into string form. All that outputs is "E" continuously. I changed the bytes into hex earlier and there seems to be some data coming in, but the current code is unable to c...

Are there any problems handling a POST request as a GET request on the server

In an attempt to resolve the issue I posted in this question: Is it possible to send POST parameters to a CGI script using a system() call? So far the only successful resolution to the problem is to trick the environment to think the request was a GET. I do this by converting the POST parameters to a query string, saving that string i...

Getting 206 Partial Content and not sure why.

Hey guys, I'm getting a 206 on some images, and I'm not quite sure why (thus how to solve it). Basically all the images are being called through the css file. background-image: url(Images/i-Background.jpg); //works background-image: url(Images/i-NavHeader-Blank.png); //doesn't work However firebug is showing two different sets of r...

I need some tool to view Http Request.

It's probably some browser plugin or a proxy. For example, I open google.com, and type something and press 'Search'. And I want to see all params of http-request (like, method, domain, params etc) ...

Refresh image with Javascript, but only if changed on server

I want to reload an image on a page if it has been updated on the server. In other questions it has been suggested to do something like newImage.src = "http://localhost/image.jpg?" + new Date().getTime(); to force the image to be re-loaded, but that means that it will get downloaded again even if it really hasn't changed. Is there a...

modify request headers in Internet Explorer

Hi Is it possible to modify request headers sent by Internet Explorer. There are addins to do this for Mozilla Firefox. Is there a similar thing for IE. Thanks in advance!! ...

Setting the Content Type of a ViewResult

I am trying to create an ActionResult that behaves in exactly the same manner as a ViewResult but allows me to specify the Content-Type header. This is difficult because from what I can tell ASP.Net MVC hands off to the webforms rendering engine, which then sets the content type using the header on the page, this method isn't viable for ...

Setting outbound 'Expires:' in Squid server's HTTP header

I'm having a problem where items served by my Squid server are being cached by Limelight for too long, sometimes days. It happens when a piece of content has been static for a long time (weeks) and then undergoes numerous changes in a matter of hours. Limelight gets its content from our Squid server and I'm told that if I can add 'Expi...

How to parse Date from HTTP Last-Modified header?

HTTP Last-Modified header contains date in following format (example): Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:55:38 GMT What is the easiest way to parse java.util.Date from this string? ...

PHP remove HTTP header

Something, I think Apache, adds these HTTP headers to all responses generated by PHP scripts: Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 This works ok for actual dynamic pages, but I have some page that, while generated by PHP, are mostly static, and I want th...

cURL,WireShark. Setting headers to post data and get xml.

Here is the dump from WireShark: POST /drm/drm_production_v2.php HTTP/1.1 content-length: 278 content-type: text/xml User-Agent: UserAgent 1.0 Connection: Keep-Alive Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ= host: www.example.com <methodCall> <methodName>aMethod</methodName> <params> <param> <value> <b...

How to forward headers on HTTP redirect

I'm writing a webapp that reponses an HTTP redirect. Is there a way to force the client to forward the headers I include in the response to the new url? Example request: POST /insertion HTTP/1.1 Content-Length: 9 (content) Webapp response: HTTP/1.x 302 Found Location: /dock Mydata: asdf Next client request: GET /dock HTTP/1.1 My...

Browser tool to calculate & set authorization headers?

Are there any Firefox add-ons/extensions that would create the correct necessary values for Authorization HTTP Header, given a username/password dataset? I have some code that's calculating the value for the Authorization header but the server is rejecting it. I'm looking to compare value that I've created against what a browser would i...

Is my PHP script cache (public) friendly?

I have finalized a small PHP application that can serve many documents. These documents must be cacheable by clients and proxies. Since proxies can cache my results I must be extra careful because the documents I serve can have different MIMEs types (content negotiation based on $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']) and different languages (based in...

Google.com and clients1.google.com/generate_204

I was looking into google.com's Net activity in firebug just because I was curious and noticed a request was returning "204 No Content." It turns out that a 204 No Content "is primarily intended to allow input for actions to take place without causing a change to the user agent's active document view, although any new or updated metainf...

HTTP chunks: All chunks sent consecutively and uninterrupted?

Can I be sure that a chunked HTTP response will be sent uninterrupted by anything else? I need to differentiate responses (and requests) and this isn't a simple case of reading content length, seeing a closed connection or a no-body response code. Can I read each chunk and once chunk-size is 0 I will have read exactly one response (or r...