authenticated http client requests from golang

Okay. I have resolved this. I just needed to create a cookie jar. I am surprised that this is not handled by default by the golang http req/client class. The code that I had to use was: type myjar struct { jar map[string] []*http.Cookie } func (p* myjar) SetCookies(u *url.URL, cookies []*http.Cookie) { fmt.Printf(“The URL … Read more

Best method: Access-Control-Allow-Origin Multiple Origin Domains

The documentation on this seems to imply that it allows multiple origins with a space separated list, but that’s not what it actually means. Here’s what I could gather as the most definitive answer to your question: the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header should be the same value as the Origin header as long as you want to … Read more

Set-Cookie: Wildcard “Path”

Check RFC 6265 HTTP State Management Mechanism, 5.1.4. Paths and Path-Match: A request-path path-matches a given cookie-path if at least one of the following conditions holds: o The cookie-path and the request-path are identical. o The cookie-path is a prefix of the request-path, and the last character of the cookie-path is %x2F (“/”). o The … Read more

HTTP Session Tracking

As you mentioned, common ways to implement HTTP session tracking include URL rewriting and cookies. Session tracking basically requires that a session ID is maintained across multiple requests to the server. This means that each time a given client makes a request to the server, it passes the same session ID. The server can use … Read more

How to fetch a remote file (e.g. from Github) in a Puppet file resource?

Before Puppet 4.4, as per http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#file, the file source only accepts puppet:// or file:// URIs. As of Puppet 4.4+, your original code would be possible. If you’re using an older version, one way to achieve what you want to do without pulling down the entire Git repository would be to use the exec resource to … Read more

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