Difference between https protocol and SSL Certificate

HTTPS is HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) plus SSL (Secure Socket Layer). You need a certificate to use any protocol that uses SSL. SSL allows arbitrary protocols to be communicated securely. It enables clients to (a) verify that they are indeed communicating with the server they expect and not a man-in-the-middle and (b) encrypt the network … Read more

Which protocol? svn:// or http(s)://?

http:// has a serious overhead, especially when dealing with thousands of small files. I used svn for a website that had around 50,000 icons, all saved in SVN. With HTTP, it took around 20 minutes to checkout. Once I switched to svn://, it took less than a minute. This is because with HTTP it’s one … Read more

html – links without http protocol

The inclusion of the “http:” or “https:” part is partly just a matter of tradition, partly a matter of actually specifying the protocol. If it is defaulted, the protocol of the current page is used; e.g., //www.example.com becomes http://www.example.com or https://www.example.com depending on the URL of the referring page. If a web page is saved … Read more

Cannot find protocol declaration

Let me reduce the sample even further, and label the lines: VC1.h #import “VC2.h” // A @class VC1; @protocol VC1Delegate // B @end @interface VC1 : UIViewController <VC2Delegate> // C @end VC2.h #import “VC1.h” // D @class VC2; @protocol VC2Delegate // E @end @interface VC2 : UIViewController <VC1Delegate> // F @end Consider what happens when … Read more

Generate Protobuf documentation? [closed]

[Update: Aug 2017. Adapted to the full Go rewrite of protoc-gen-bug, currently 1.0.0-rc] The protoc-doc-gen, created by @estan (see also his earlier answer) provides a good and easy way to generate your documentation in html, json, markdown, pdf and other formats. There are number of additional things that I should mention: estan is no longer … Read more