Setting a 404 in WordPress can be done quite easily using the set_404() method of WP_Query and the status_header() function. Here’s an example taken from WP::handle_404(): $wp_query->set_404(); status_header( 404 ); nocache_headers(); If I wanted my tag archive to be accessible to authenticated users only, setting a 404 page for non-authenticated users wouldn’t make sense because … Read more
I’m using Axios while programing in ReactJS and I pretend to send a DELETE request to my server. To do so I need the headers: headers: { ‘Authorization’: … } and the body is composed of var payload = { “username”: .. } I’ve been searching in the inter webs and only found that the … Read more
Was playing around with settings and changed HTTP to HTTPs. I’m now getting a message that says “Index of /”. Any idea how to change it back to HTTP or login to the website? 1 Answer 1 By default web servers / your hosting serves files from HTTPS from a separate folder. This means that … 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
When I try to POST to a URL it results in the following exception: The remote server returned an error: (417) Expectation Failed. Here’s a sample code: var client = new WebClient(); var postData = new NameValueCollection(); postData.Add(“postParamName”, “postParamValue”); byte[] responseBytes = client.UploadValues(“http://…”, postData); string response = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(responseBytes); // (417) Expectation Failed. Using an HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse … Read more
I’m doing some requests to an API via WordPress, and the API uses SSL connections if they’re turned on in the API settings. I’d like to determine whether SSL is turned on or off without having to ask the user if SSL is turned on on their account, and the API does a good job … Read more
trying to convert a plugin I wrote to use wp_http instead of Curl (so it’ll work on servers without curl) the plugin posts to paypal nvp api and gets back an encrypted button when I try to use the WP_Http class i get “Invalid HTTP Response for POST” would be glad for any help figuring … Read more
What is optimal HTTP response Code when not reporting 200 (everything OK) but error in input? Like, you submit some data to server, and it will response that your data is wrong using 500 looks more like Server Issue using 200 with warning/error response text is bad (allowing caching and everything is not OK) using … Read more
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
