The spec calls them “exchanges” (or “request/response exchanges”). Per section 1.4, “Overall Operation”: In HTTP/1.0, most implementations used a new connection for each request/response exchange. In HTTP/1.1, a connection may be used for one or more request/response exchanges […]
The spec calls them “exchanges” (or “request/response exchanges”). Per section 1.4, “Overall Operation”: In HTTP/1.0, most implementations used a new connection for each request/response exchange. In HTTP/1.1, a connection may be used for one or more request/response exchanges […]
There’s no perfect way to do this. The correct HTTP/REST way would be to use a GET and have all your parameters in the URL as query arguments. You’ve identified two practical problems with this approach Your server software is not correctly passing some characters to you, even if URL encoded. That surprises me, actually, … Read more
From Jacob, Heroku’s Director of Security at the time: The router doesn’t overwrite X-Forwarded-For, but it does guarantee that the real origin will always be the last item in the list. This means that, if you access a Heroku app in the normal way, you will just see your IP address in the X-Forwarded-For header: … Read more
Dim o Set o = CreateObject(“MSXML2.XMLHTTP”) o.open “GET”, “http://www.example.com”, False o.send ‘ o.responseText now holds the response as a string.
Depends what you mean by optional. If you mean that you can just omit the header anytime you like then no, it is not optional. The HTTP spec has very specific rules when to use that header. There are different ways of sending the data if you don’t know the length. Chunked encoding for example. … Read more
From net/http GoDoc and Source. ListenAndServe starts an HTTP server with a given address and handler. The handler is usually nil, which means to use DefaultServeMux. Handle and HandleFunc add handlers to DefaultServeMux DefaultServeMux is just a predefined http.ServeMux var DefaultServeMux = &defaultServeMux var defaultServeMux ServeMux As you can see http.Handle calls DefaultServeMux internally. func … Read more
Will simply sending base64 encoded data work? There is no need to use base 64 encoding – this will simply increase the number of bytes you must transfer. Mobile operators normally limit mangling of responses to content types that they understand – i.e. images, stylesheets, etc. How are the HTTP sessions handled? HTTP sessions are … Read more
A MIME type is used so software ( like a browser for example ) can know how to handle the data. If a server says “This data is of type text/csv” the client can understand that can render that data internally, while if the server says “This data is of type application/csv” the client knows … Read more
For anyone coming across this in recent times, the request library supports gzip decompression out of the box now. Use as follows: request( { method: ‘GET’ , uri: ‘http://www.google.com’ , gzip: true } , function (error, response, body) { // body is the decompressed response body console.log(‘server encoded the data as: ‘ + (response.headers[‘content-encoding’] || … Read more