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Given that the TCP connection is already established when the HTTP request is sent, the IP address and port are implicitly known — a TCP connection is an IP...
How to share cookies cross origin? More specifically, how to use the Set-Cookie header in combination with the header Access-Control-Allow-Origin? Here’s an explanation of my situation: I am attempting...
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I read about Pragma header on Wikipedia which says: “The Pragma: no-cache header field is an HTTP/1.0 header intended for use in requests. It is a means for the...
How do I add a custom header to a HttpClient request? I am using PostAsJsonAsync method to post the JSON. The custom header that I would need to be...
DELETE is supposed to be idempotent. If I DELETE http://example.com/account/123 it’s going to delete the account. If I do it again would I expect a 404, since the account...
What’s the difference between Expires and Cache-Control headers? 7 Answers 7
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 What do these ‘q=%f’ mean? 3 Answers 3
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....