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What is the main difference between PATCH and PUT request?

I am using a PUT request in my Rails application. Now, a new HTTP verb, PATCH has been implemented by browsers. So, I ...

May 25, 2022
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What is the difference between Digest and Basic Authentication?

What is the difference between Digest and Basic Authentication ? 4 Answers 4

May 24, 2022
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Is it considered bad practice to perform HTTP POST without entity body?

I need to invoke a process which doesn’t require any input from the user, just a trigger. I plan to use POST /uri ...

May 23, 2022
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What’s the difference between a 302 and a 307 redirect?

What’s the difference between a 302 FOUND and a 307 TEMPORARY REDIRECT HTTP response? The W3 spec seems to indicate that they’re both ...

May 23, 2022
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CURL Command Line URL Parameters

I am trying to send a DELETE request with a url parameter using CURL. I am doing: curl -H application/x-www-form-urlencoded -X DELETE http://localhost:5000/locations` ...

May 23, 2022
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Can I change all my http:// links to just //?

Dave Ward says, It’s not exactly light reading, but section 4.2 of RFC 3986 provides for fully qualified URLs that omit protocol (the ...

May 23, 2022
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How to evaluate http response codes from bash/shell script?

I have the feeling that I’m missing the obvious, but have not succeeded with man...

May 23, 2022
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Escaping ampersand in URL

I am trying to send a GET message that contains strings with ampersands and can’t figure how to escape the ampersand in the ...

May 22, 2022
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Is 418 “I’m a teapot” really an HTTP response code?

Is 418 “I’m a teapot” really an HTTP response code? There are various references to this on the internet, including in lists of ...

May 22, 2022
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How to set HTTP headers (for cache-control)?

How to enable browser caching for my site? Do I just put cache-control:public somewhere up in my header like this? <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ...

May 21, 2022
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