http-headers

Access HTTP response headers in for flash.net.URLLoader object?

Is there a way to access the response headers from an HTTP result when using Flash/Flex's URLLoader? Setting the request headers is possible, as is accessing the response code, but getting a hold of the actual response headers seems to be conspicuously lacking... Specifically, I would like to get a hold of the Last-Modified response he...

Interesting UTF-8 Yahoo File Download Headers

My company runs a webmail service, and we were trying to diagnose a problem with Word downloads not opening automatically - the same *.doc file download from Yahoo Mail would open, but one from ours would not. In the course of investigating the headers we saw this coming from Yahoo: content-disposition attachment; filename*="utf-8''wor...

How to detect when a user has successfully finished downloading a file in php

I've got a php page which handles requets for file downloads. I need to be able to detect when a file has been downloaded successfully. How can this be done? Perhaps there's some means of detecting this client-side then sending a confirmation down to the server. Thanks. Edit: By handle, I mean that the page is doing something like this...

What should the HTTP response be when the resource is forbidden but there's an alternate resource?

If I have a resource that a requesting client doesn't have access to but I want to notify them about an alternate resource for which they do have access, should I send them a 403 Forbidden with the alternate resource's URI in the header or content? Or should I just send a 303 See Other redirect to the resource to which they have access? ...

can i use "http header" to check if a dynamic page has been changed.

you can request the http header to check if a web page has been edited by looking at its date but how about dynamic pages such as - php, aspx- which grabs its data from a database? ...

Manipulating the HTTP header in WCF before HTTP authentication in HttpBinding

This is in relation to this question I am hosting this WCF service in a custom service host. IIS is not an option. Is there a way to inject an HTTP "Authenticate" header in the server stack (if it's missing) early on in the request process - such that a default user can be passed into the authentication/authorization process that I ha...

Differentiating Between an AJAX Call / Browser Request

Is there anything in the header of an HTTP request that would allow me to differentiate between an AJAX call and a direct browser request from a given client? Are the user agent strings usually the same regardless? ...

How do I access the HTTP request header fields via JavaScript?

I want to capture the HTTP request header fields, primarily the Referer and User-Agent, within my client-side JavaScript. How may I access them? Google Analytics manages to get the data via JavaScript that they have you embed in you pages, so it is definitely possible. ...

Accessing HTTP Headers in Javascript?

How do I access the HTTP response headers via JavaScript? Related to this question, which was modified to ask about specifically accessing browser information. ...

Custom headers possible with URLRequest/URLStream using method GET?

Quite simple really: var req:URLRequest=new URLRequest(); req.url="http://somesite.com"; var header:URLRequestHeader=new URLRequestHeader("my-bespoke-header","1"); req.requestHeaders.push(header); req.method=URLRequestMethod.GET; stream.load(req); Yet, if I inspect the traffic with WireShark, the my-bespoke-header is not being sent. I...

Operating System from User-Agent HTTP Header

Is there a good, up-to-date listing anywhere that maps User-Agent HTTP Header strings --> operating systems? ...

Error: The HTTP headers are already written to the client browser

I got this error Response object error 'ASP 0156 : 80004005' Header Error /ordermgmt/updateorderstatus.asp, line 1390 The HTTP headers are already written to the client browser. Any HTTP header modifications must be made before writing page content. I put Response.Buffer=true; Stilll it is showing error. I have put reponse,Redir...

Authorizing REST Requests

I'm working on a REST service that has a few requirements: It has to be secure. Users should not be able to forge requests. My current proposed solution is to have a custom Authorization header that look like this (this is the same way that the amazon web services work): Authorization: MYAPI username:signature My question is how t...

Forward URL and still return 200 not 302 in ASPX

I want this page to return 200 whilst still sending the redirect... <script> sub page_load 'Get the parameters dim content As String content = request.querystring("text") response.redirect ("http://100.200.100.10/test1/Default.aspx?CommandParm=" + content) end sub </script> <html> <head> ...

Response.Redirect strips Header Referrer - Possible to Add it Back?

I'm using a Response.Redirect to redirect users to another server to download a file, and the other server is checking the header to ensure it came from the correct server... however it seems Response.Redirect strips the headers from the Response. Does anybody know how i can add the headers back? I've tried: Response.AddHeader("Refere...

PHP apache_request_headers() diagrees with reality (as confirmed by Firebug): why?

I have written a web app in PHP which makes use of Ajax requests (made using YUI.util.Connect.asyncRequest). Most of the time, this works fine. The request is sent with an X-Requested-With value of XMLHttpRequest. My PHP controller code uses apache_request_headers() to check whether an incoming request is Ajax or not and all works wel...

How to create HTTP 301 redirect from Stellent (Oracle UCM) script

Is it possible to send a HTTP response with a permanent redirect from a Stellent (now called Oracle UCM) website? We're using version 7.5.2 with iDoc script. We can use the iDoc function setHttpHeader() to send the Location HTTP header, but how to send the HTTP response code 301, to signal the permanent redirect to the browser? ...

Parse Accept Header

Does anyone have any suggestions (or a regular expression) for parsing the HTTP Accept header? I am trying to do some content-type negotiation in ASP.NET MVC. There doesn't seem to be a built in way (which is fine, because there are a lot of schools of thought here), but the parsing is not entirely trivial and I would rather not re-inve...

Can I make IEMobile not strip the # from the URL of a redirect?

I am having an issue with IEMobile accessing my site. A certain redirect I use has a 302 response code, and the headers (yep, that's app-engine): Server Development/1.0 Python/2.5.2 Date Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:47:02 GMT Content-Type text/html; charset=utf-8 Cache-Control no-cache Location http://localhost/games/...

Java URLConnection : how could I find out a file's size ?

I'm working on a project for school , and I'm implementing a tool which can be used to download files from the web ( with a throttling option ) . The thing is , I'm gonna have a GUI for it , and I will use a JProgressBar widget , which I would like to reflect how much the tool downloaded so far , and for that I would need to know the siz...