UTF-8 characters mangled in HTTP Basic Auth username

I want to allow any valid UTF-8 characters in usernames and passwords. Abandon all hope. Basic Authentication and Unicode don’t mix. There is no standard(*) for how to encode non-ASCII characters into a Basic Authentication username:password token before base64ing it. Consequently every browser does something different: Opera uses UTF-8; IE uses the system’s default codepage … Read more

Java URLConnection : how can I find out the size of a web file?

Any HTTP response is supposed to contain a Content-Length header, so you could query the URLConnection object for this value. //once the connection has been opened List values = urlConnection.getHeaderFields().get(“content-Length”) if (values != null && !values.isEmpty()) { // getHeaderFields() returns a Map with key=(String) header // name, value = List of String values for that … Read more

Adding http headers to window.location.href in Angular app

When you use $window.location.href the browser is making the HTTP request and not your JavaScript code. Therefore, you cannot add a custom header like Authorization with your token value. You could add a cookie via JavaScript and put your auth token there. The cookies will automatically be sent from the browser. However, you will want … Read more

How to Remove Client Headers in Nginx before passing request to upstream server?

The proxy_set_header HEADER “” does exactly what you expect. See https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_set_header. If the value of a header field is an empty string then this field will not be passed to a proxied server: proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding “”; I have just confirmed this is working as documented, I used Nginx v1.12.

C# – Connection: keep-alive Header is Not Being Sent During HttpWebRequest

I’ve had the same issue: The Connection: Keep-Alive header is not sent except the first request, and the server I accessed won’t give me the correct response if it is missing. So, here are my workarounds to this issue: First is set the ProtocolVersion property of HttpWebRequest instance to HttpVersion.Version10. Except the http command will … Read more

how to set Http header X-XSS-Protection

I doubt it’d work as just a meta tag. You may have to tell your web server to send it as a real header. In PHP, you’d do it like header(“X-XSS-Protection: 0”); In ASP.net: Response.AppendHeader(“X-XSS-Protection”,”0″) In Apache’s config: Header set X-XSS-Protection 0 In IIS, there’s a section in the properties for extra headers. It often … Read more

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)