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Share cookie between subdomain and domain

I have two questions. I understand that if I specify the domain as .mydomain.com (with the leading dot) in the cookie that all ...

April 30, 2022
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Are the PUT, DELETE, HEAD, etc methods available in most web browsers?

I’ve seen a couple questions around here like How to debug RESTful services, which mentions: Unfortunately that same browser won’t allow me to ...

April 29, 2022
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How does HTTP file upload work?

When I submit a simple form like this with a file attached: <form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="http://localhost:3000/upload?upload_progress_id=12344" method="POST"> <input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="100000" /> Choose a ...

April 28, 2022
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What’s the difference between Cache-Control: max-age=0 and no-cache?

The header Cache-Control: max-age=0 implies that the content is considered stale (and must be re-fetched) immediately, which is in effect the same thing ...

April 27, 2022
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Are HTTP headers case-sensitive?

In a blog post I use the following PHP to set the content-type of a response: header('content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8'); I just got a ...

April 19, 2022
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Is an entity body allowed for an HTTP DELETE request?

When issuing an HTTP DELETE request, the request URI should completely identify the resource to delete. However, is it allowable to add extra ...

April 18, 2022
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REST HTTP status codes for failed validation or invalid duplicate

I am building an application with a REST-based API and have come to the point where I am specifying status codes for each ...

April 17, 2022
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What’s the difference between a POST and a PUT HTTP REQUEST?

They both seem to be sending data to the server inside the body, so what makes them different? 19 s 19 HTTP PUT: ...

April 15, 2022
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Custom HTTP headers : naming conventions

Several of our users have asked us to include data relative to their account in the HTTP headers of requests we send them, ...

April 13, 2022
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application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data?

In HTTP there are two ways to POST data: application/x-www-form-urlencoded and multipart/form-data. I understand that most browsers are only able to upload files ...

April 12, 2022
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