what’s the difference between Expires and Cache-Control headers?
What’s the difference between Expires and Cache-Control headers? 7 Answers 7
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What exactly does the Access-Control-Allow-Credentials header do?
I’m trying to understand how to use CORS and am confused about what the Access-Control-Allow-Credentials header does. The documentation says Indicates whether or not the response to the request can be exposed when the credentials flag is true. But I don’t understand what the response being “exposed” means. Can anyone explain what this header being … Read more
Axios get access to response header fields
I’m building a frontend app with React and Redux and I’m using axios to perform my requests. I would like to get access to all the fields in the header of the response. In my browser I can inspect the header and I can see that all the fields that I need are present(such as … Read more
What’s the “Content-Length” field in HTTP header?
What does it mean? Byte count of encoded content string with encoding specified in header. Character count of content string. Especially in case of Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded. 9 Answers 9
What is http multipart request?
I have been writing iPhone applications for some time now, sending data to server, receiving data (via HTTP protocol), without thinking too much about it. Mostly I am theoretically familiar with process, but the part I am not so familiar is HTTP multipart request. I know its basic structure, but the core of it eludes … Read more
How can I view HTTP headers in Google Chrome?
Till 9.x, the headers were under the resources in the Developer Tools, but now I can’t find it anywhere. 9 s 9 I’m not sure about your exact version, but Chrome has a tab “Network” with several items and when I click on them I can see the headers on the right in a tab. … Read more
403 Forbidden vs 401 Unauthorized HTTP responses
For a web page that exists, but for which a user does not have sufficient privileges (they are not logged in or do not belong to the proper user group), what is the proper HTTP response to serve? 401 Unauthorized? 403 Forbidden? Something else? What I’ve read on each so far isn’t very clear on … Read more
