http-headers

Is this statement correct? HTTP GET method always has no message body

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Neither restclient nor REST console support this but curl does. The original HTTP 1.1 specification says in section 4.3 A message-body MUST NOT be included in a request if the specification of the request method (section 5.1.1) does not allow sending an entity-body in requests. Section 5.1.1 redirects us to section 9.x for the various … Read more

Get the http headers from current request in PHP

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Taken from the documentation someone wrote a comment… if (!function_exists(‘getallheaders’)) { function getallheaders() { $headers = array (); foreach ($_SERVER as $name => $value) { if (substr($name, 0, 5) == ‘HTTP_’) { $headers[str_replace(‘ ‘, ‘-‘, ucwords(strtolower(str_replace(‘_’, ‘ ‘, substr($name, 5)))))] = $value; } } return $headers; } }

How to get host name with port from a http or https request

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You can use HttpServletRequest.getScheme() to retrieve either “http” or “https”. Using it along with HttpServletRequest.getServerName() should be enough to rebuild the portion of the URL you need. You don’t need to explicitly put the port in the URL if you’re using the standard ones (80 for http and 443 for https). Edit: If your servlet … Read more

Adding X-Frame-Options header to all pages in MVC 4 application

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There’s no need for a custom HttpModule or ActionFilter if you need it for every page. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTTP/X-Frame-Options details a much simpler solution: To configure IIS to send the X-Frame-Options header, add this your site’s Web.config file: <system.webServer> <!– … –> <httpProtocol> <customHeaders> <add name=”X-Frame-Options” value=”SAMEORIGIN” /> </customHeaders> </httpProtocol> <!– … –> </system.webServer>

Is there a Google Chrome extension to inject custom HTTP headers in each request? [closed]

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There’s a bunch of nice extensions now! Modifying headers for all requests Modify Headers using Requestly Modify Header Value ModHeader Generic HTTP / REST clients Postman REST Client (Packaged App) – closed source, but used to be open source DHC – REST/HTTP API Client – closed source, but faster and more robust than POSTman Advanced … Read more

Is it OK to HTTP redirect images?

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Yes, you can redirect images and browsers will follow redirects. But you’ll generally want to keep redirection to a minimum for performance reasons, because each redirect requires a separate HTTP request, which adds server overhead and increases end-user page load time a little. The one thing you should definitely avoid is redirecting many images on … Read more

How can I set a cookie and then redirect in PHP?

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If you have human-readable urls or subfolders (like www.domain.com/path1/path2/), then you must set cookie path to / to work for all paths, not just current one. if($form_submitted) { … setcookie(‘type_id’, $new_type_id, time() + 60*60*24*30, “https://stackoverflow.com/”); header(“Location: $url”); exit; } From PHP manual: The path on the server in which the cookie will be available on. … Read more