Right now I'm trying to serve CSS and JS files from a server that won't let me enable mod_gzip or mod_deflate. So I wrote a small PHP script to compress with GZIP and return to the user. Example Code: $filename = "style.css"; if (!file_exists($filename) || !($info = stat($filename))) { header("HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found"); die(); } ...
When a browser sends an HTTP request to a web server, what encoding is used to encode the HTTP protocol on the wire? Is it ASCII? UTF8? or UTF16? Or does it specify which encoding it uses in a predefined format (before any decoding takes place?) P.S I'm not asking about the actual payload (e.g. HTML) of the request/response. I'm asking ...
Hi, Is it possible to send a Http header via a URL connection in java? I had this working using sockets, but ran into issues with a firewall which don't seem to be a problem with URLConnection. From looking at the API I get the impression that the output methods in URLConnection are just for filling in forms etc, or can they be used to s...
What does the utmscr and/or utmcct values mean in reference to the Http cookie Server variable? Are they acronyms or short for something? We are getting Elmah errors with the title "System.Web.HttpException: Unable to validate data." In each Elmah error message, the Http Cookie server variable value contains a property called utmscr s...
I am attempting to create a REST API in PHP and I'd like to implement an authentication scheme similar to Amazon's S3 approach. This involves setting a custom 'Authorization' header in the request. I had thought I would be able to access the header with $_SERVER['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'], but it's nowhere to be found in var_dump($_SERVER). ...
In AS2, I need to get a URL. In the header of the HTTP response, a cookie is set. Is it possible to read the header of the HTTP response and get the cookie's data? ...
Is there a way to intercept a call made by WebBrowser to SSL (within in an asp.net application)? I need to pass parameters to http-headers at runtime before the request is made. Example: if I type "http://test.com", the browser communicates with the server and returns "https://test1.com" as the secured url. I should be be able to inter...
Hi I am using the HttpConnection class of J2ME in my BlackBerry app to send data to a web server. I need to send the contents of an image in the body of the HTTP request. This is what I do Get the bytes of the file in an array Open HTTP connection Set content type header as image/jpeg Get output stream of the connection Write the byt...
I have an asp.net website that is using update panels on the page that i cant get to reload from the server. I have this for the disable page cache on the master page. 'Response.Cache.SetExpires(DateTime.UtcNow.AddDays(-1)) 'Response.Cache.SetValidUntilExpires(False) 'Response.Cache.SetRevalidation(HttpCacheRevalidation.All...
How do I add a custom header to files pylons is serving from public? ...
Hi, I'm having a problem with my function. The purpose of my function is to force a string to be downloaded. What it really happens is that the string is outputted to the screen and not downloaded. This is my function: function arrayToCSV($vectorDados, $cabecalho) { $arr = array(); $arr=$vectorDados; $csv = $cabecalho . "\...
What is the Server HTTP response header useful for? I have yet to actually see a use for it. Why would someone that's requesting a webpage need to know what server a webpage is hosted on? ...
NSURLConnection by default performs a GET request with HTTP v1.1. How do I get it to perform a GET request with HTTP v1.0? Or is there a HTTP header I can set that will do this for me? ...
This isn't really a programming question but more about programming and testing tools. Is there a way to get Firefox to send the header Host: mydomain.com when accessing a page at http://ip.address.goes.here/ so that Apache can route it to the correct VirtualHost? ...
I am compressing html files with gzip. The browser (FF 3.0.10) does not decompress or display index.html.gz (pre-compressed on the server) when I request index.html Where can I confirm the zipped header "content-encoding" and the browsers "Accept-Encoding"? (I am using the zlib API in C for zipping) Thanks. ...
I'm implementing a REST API using ASP.NET MVC, and a little stumbling block has come up in the form of the Expect: 100-continue request header for requests with a post body. RFC 2616 states that: Upon receiving a request which includes an Expect request-header field with the "100-continue" expectation, an origin server M...
I'm working on an OSGi-based application that uses org.osgi.service.http.HttpService which does not support the use of Servlet Filters. Before I realised that I wouldn't be able to use Servlet Filters I was planning to apply a couple of existing Filters. These Filters set the appropriate HTTP headers to: prevent caching of responses c...
I am trying to read a image file (.jpeg to be exact), and 'echo' it back to the page output, but have is display an image... my index.php has an image link like this: <img src='test.php?image=1234.jpeg' /> and my php script does basically this: 1) read 1234.jpeg 2) echo file contents... 3) I have a feeling I need to return the outpu...
Using Basic Authentication, if the user has already logged in, the browser will include the username/password in the http request in the succeeding http requests ONLY IF it receives a 401 response containing an authentication challenge. Username/password is passed via Authorization header. Is there a way to force the browser to always i...
I was looking at the livehttpheaders plugin for Firefox and decided to test my login page. I noticed that the parameters shown inside of it contain my login and password. For example: username=sarmenhb&password=thepassword&submit=Login in plain English. I don not see this on other sites. What can I be doing wrong? I see this as a se...