http-headers

Read HTTP headers in Controller (Zend Framework)

Long story short: I'm building a skeleton application for Zend Framework and I got to the part where I need to setup the api module. I'm using Zend_Rest_Controller for this job. All is ok up to this part where I need to get the HTTP headers in a controller to verify the api key. On various tutorials I've read on the web the thing is do...

Standard for adding multiple values of a single HTTP Header to a request or response

If I want to add a list of values as an HTTP Header, is there a standard way to do this? I couldn't find anything (that I could easily understand) in RFC 822. For example, is comma separated values standard or semi-colon separated values. Is there a standard at all? Example: Key: value1;value2;value3 ...

which scripting language in the url part use : and ? to request or get info from the server side?

familiar with the example below? eg: http://www.example001.com/browse:tags?word=red elaborate further using the : and ? and = :xxxx?xxxx=xxxx and suggestions on scripting language that can combine together with regular expressions and tag with @ or hash etc thanks ...

Asp.net Response.Redirect - Incorrect referrer

I have a asp.net application that i use for traffic tracking. I get a incoming visitor from several source websites and redirect the visitor to the target website using Response.Redirect(url); The problem is that currently the referer shown to the target website (after i redirect) is of the url of the source website and not my website....

http headers for faster image loading ?

Hi, I need to load almost 100's of images in a single page on my website. ( product image, lots of them ). Whenever image change for product, url for that image also changes. i.e. for one url corresponding iamge never changes. Now I want to make sure that for a same person browsing through website, the image must not load again. Is ex...

What is <meta http-equiv="Reply-to" content="[email protected]" />?

What does the following HTML code do? <meta http-equiv="Reply-to" content="[email protected]" /> There does not seem to a "Reply-to" equivalent header in HTTP. Should I remove it or correct it? ...

Help with cache control and expiry headers

Sorry if this question sounds a bit basic, I just want to be double sure. I retrieve my images with a URL like so image.jpg?m=54437 The end numbers allow me to cache control it. When the image changes, so do those numbers. I am sending these headers with these images HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:54:19 GMT Server: Ap...

POST request for XML_Web_Services

Hello, I am using xml_web_services to get xml from server .I used post request for sending parameter to server. For Post request I am not getting xml in response body. But when I use Get request and Response body contains xml in string format.How should I get proper response with Post request? ...

ASP.NET custom HTTPModule - how to tell when writing last block of HTML in Write method?

I have written an Http Module that hooks onto the Response.Filter property of the current request and does various replacements within the HTML before it is sent to the client. All the work is done in the Write method which is overriding Write in the base class Stream. The Write method is called multiple times for a single response - t...

Avoiding image compression on some 3G networks

I want to download an image from the 'net and set it as the users background. This works great over wi-fi, and some 3G networks, but others (T-Mobile UK, for sure) seem to compress the images before sending them. This effect is noticeable when using the browser, too - however, if you long press on an image and save it, when viewing in ...

Don't save URL in history, any header or meta-tag?

Is there any HTTP-headers or meta-tags one can use to avoid getting a URL into the browser history? For example, I don't want http://domain.td/show/super-secret-unique-token-that-is-private to show up in the browser URL bar, when I start typing "domain.t". Currently I have a (POST) search form on the website to load the tokens, and ...

saves as and Print dialog doesn't seem to work together in php...

I have a products page list and i am exporting it to a word document and also allowing user to print the document window.print... I click ExportToWord button saves as dialog opens and i canceled it... Next when i click print button the print dialog appears for a second and minmizes and the Saves as dialog appears containing the word docu...

Insert info into an HTTP header

I’m trying to add some data to the http header that comes back from a RESTful web service call. Is it possible to use JAX-RS or something else to add data to the response header? Example of my method: @GET @Path("getAssets") public List<Asset> getAssets(@QueryParam("page") @DefaultValue("1") String page, @QueryPara...

Issue with File Download HTTP Headers in IE, when passed through nginx reverse proxy

Setup: IIS7 serving ASP classic VB script code which generates a dynamic VSC page/file with headers to download. Response.ContentType = "text/x-vCalendar" Response.Expires = -1 Response.Buffer = True Response.Clear Response.AddHeader "Content-Disposition", "filename=" & strFileName & ".vcs;" Response.Write strFileContent Our IIS7 ser...

Http headers in Javascript ?

Hello, Is it possible to gather the HTTP headers in Javascript ? This is just a thought of mine after using Firebug for days In one of the posts I came to know that, it is impossible to find the HTTP headers in Javascript, whereas in firebug, we can see the response headers ( client side ) so my doubt is can we cache the HTTP hea...

IWebBrowser2 HTTP response headers

I have the same question that Dragos asked here "...Hi! I'm developing an application which hosts an web browser control. I'm getting access to it through IWebBrowser2 interface. Is there any way to have access programatically to the responses header..." The solution (from 2003) seems to be using an passthrough Asynchronous Pluggable...

Set more than one HTTP header with the same name?

As far as I know it is allowed by the HTTP spec to set more than one HTTP header with the same name. Is there any use case to do so (from client to server and vice versa)? HTTP 1.1 Section 4.2: Multiple message-header fields with the same field-name MAY be present in a message if and only if the entire field-value for that hea...

Spoofing HTTP-request Referrer from HTML?

Is there some secret and mystical way to change the value of my HTTP-request's referer, or at the very least, keep it from showing? Also, using a MitM page from another domain would not solve my issue, as you are now just submitting that other page's value. This is not browser specific, I would need to do this on the HTML level. The pr...

Forced download stopped working

I have a php script that I have used for years to force downloads from my website. But sometime in the last month or so, it stopped working and is triggering file not found errors. The weird thing is that in firefox, if I do view source on the error page, it is the file I was trying to download. And doing File > Save from there give you ...

WCF REST client with TransferMode=Streamed - logging entire ("raw") http requests/responses

This is on .Net 4, full framework. I'm trying to make a simple winforms app that will make some simple WCF REST calls. It's using ChannelFactory and the service contract interface. Of the ~20 methods in the interface, 2 of them involve Stream (an upload and a download method) so the service side (and currently also the client side) us...