If you were going to store a user agent in a database, how large would you accomdate for? I found this technet article which recommends keeping UA under 200. It doesn’t look like this is defined in the HTTP specification at least not that I found. My UA is already 149 characters, and it seems … Read more
I’m using the Google “Page Speed” plug-in for Firefox to access my web site. Some of the components on my page is indicated as HTTP status: 200 200 (cache) 304 By Google’s “Page Speed”. What I’m confused about is the difference between 200 (cache) and 304. I’ve refreshed the page multiple times (but have not … Read more
From the RFC 2616 http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.9.1 no-cache If the no-cache directive does not specify a field-name, then a cache MUST NOT use the response to satisfy a subsequent request without successful revalidation with the origin server. This allows an origin server to prevent caching even by caches that have been configured to return stale responses to … Read more
What’s the difference between HTTP 301 and 308 status codes? 301 (Moved Permanently): This and all future requests should be directed to the given URI. 308 (Permanent Redirect): The request and all future requests should be repeated using another URI. They seem to be similar. 1 Answer 1
So I’ve been toying around with HTTP for fun in telnet now (i.e. just typing in telnet google.com 80 and putting in random GETs and POSTs with different headers and the like) but I’ve come across something that google.com transmits in it’s headers that I don’t know. I’ve been looking through http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html and have found … Read more
In RESTful style programming, we should use HTTP methods as our building blocks. I’m a little confused though which methods match up to the classic CRUD methods. GET/Read and DELETE/Delete are obvious enough. However, what is the difference between PUT/POST? Do they match one to one with Create and Update? 9 Answers 9
I’m doing a simple http GET in Go: client := &http.Client{} req, _ := http.NewRequest(“GET”, url, nil) res, _ := client.Do(req) But I can’t found a way to customize the request header in the doc, thanks 4 Answers 4
Assuming a URL of: www.example.com/?val=1#part2 PHP can read the request variables val1 using the GET array. Is the hash value part2 also readable? Or is this only upto the browser and JavaScript? 12 Answers 12
What is the standard pattern of orchestrating microservices? If a microservice only knows about its own domain, but there is a flow of data that requires that multiple services interact in some manner, what’s the way to go about it? Let’s say we have something like this: Invoicing Shipment And for the sake of the … Read more
Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post. Closed 7 years ago. Improve this question HTTP/1.1 has served the Web well for more than fifteen years, but its age is … Read more
