Tag Archives: HTTP

Docker Run without “docker run”

Posted on 23 Oct 2019 by hakre

So there was this one question on Stackoverflow in which the OP was linking an .htaccess tester for Mod-Rewrite-Rules. Despite this being all fine I was asking myself what about really(tm) testing this? So I remembered the rewrite-log from the … Continue reading →

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Professional Webdevelopers At Work – Yahoo Mail Endless Redirect Demonstration

Posted on 26 Oct 2013 by hakre

So familiar with these 1996 Web-Technologies but not having the time to care in these rushing 201x days as this two minute documentary of an endless redirect-chain shows. Thanks to random URL parameters used to prevent ancient caching woes in … Continue reading →

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Architecture the Lost Years (Robert Cecil Martin; 4 Nov 2011)

Posted on 9 Jan 2012 by hakre

Did worldwide Hypertext turned software developers out in the field upside-down? In Architecture the Lost Years (1h 06m) Robert C. Martin talks about the web and how it influenced development design decisions in the last decade(s). Is the system the … Continue reading →

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Richardson Maturity Model: steps toward the glory of REST, also HATEOAS.

Posted on 7 Jan 2012 by hakre | Leave a comment

HEAD first with PHP Streams

Posted on 17 Sep 2011 by hakre

PHP has a built-in function called get_headers that will return the response headers. But it has some downsides, like requesting the whole response (and not only the HEAD) and it’s hard to control behaviour for redirects. On Stackoverflow some users … Continue reading →

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getallheaders available for FASTCGI in PHP 5.4

Posted on 18 Jul 2011 by hakre

Good news. PHP 5.4 – according to docs – will support the “apache alias” getallheaders(). That means, you can get all header values of the request w/o fiddling any longer with server configuration. N1. Read On: What new feature in … Continue reading →

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Improved handling of HTTP requests in PHP

Posted on 2 Jul 2011 by hakre

Improved handling of HTTP requests in PHP Merci beaucoup Nicolas Grekas for compiling this in-depth! Read On: getallheaders available for FASTCGI in PHP 5.4 (18 Jul 2011)

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HTTP Redirect Codes (3xx) and the Location Field

Posted on 21 Mar 2011 by hakre

Over the last days some including me have opened tickets in wordpress trac touching the HTTP transport layer and redirection in specific. As with my previous HTTP related review of worpdress, this is getting more and more interesting and detailed … Continue reading →

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How to Debug Redirect Problems in WordPress

Posted on 20 Mar 2011 by hakre

A nice Sunday over here and time to begin the day with some good news: The Better HTTP Redirects (WordPress Plugin) just got even better! I’ve added some improvement in the brand-new 1.2 version that is a helping hand if … Continue reading →

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HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) –

Posted on 21 Feb 2011 by hakre | 1 Comment

PHP: Compare vs. Calculating (1/2)

Posted on 7 Aug 2010 by hakre

This speed comparison test I’ve made is not of that much interest, but it shows somehow when / how optimization takes place. Those “performance” test are most likely not that valuable for optimizations but to better know the language. I … Continue reading →

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Normalize URLs 1.0 released

Posted on 21 Jul 2010 by hakre

My latest plugin release fixes multiple core wordpress problems to handle HTTP requests properly at once: Normalize URLs. It does so by normalizing every incoming URL to a form that is to be expected by the wordpress core. That way, … Continue reading →

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Redirect Loop Protection for Better HTTP Redirects Plugin

Posted on 17 Jul 2010 by hakre

Some wordpress user were concerned about Google webmaster tools giving notice about redirect errors (same page redirects). There is a flaw in the current canonical redirect implementation. That is the part of wordpress that takes care that all your site’s … Continue reading →

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Apache 1.3 Default 300-307 Server Responses

Posted on 26 Jun 2010 by hakre

I had run a testscript (see below) that is a bit whacky but working to gather server responses somehow automatically to get a servers default answers. It is written in PHP and needs curl to be available and a server … Continue reading →

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Better HTTP Redirects 1.0 released

Posted on 25 Jun 2010 by hakre

I just have released a new wordpress plugin called Better HTTP redirects. Well I know the name is not very creative and having “better” in a title does not make it even better. The plugin aims to add more HTTP … Continue reading →

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wordpress HTTP and header related tickets

Posted on 24 Jun 2010 by hakre

I’ve done some massive HTTP stuff lately which included a full re-read of some (all?) HTTP releated RFCs – some of them I first studied years ago. It’s not that simple as it was back those years, but it’s good … Continue reading →

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HTTP Status Codes in Use

Posted on 18 Jun 2010 by hakre

This is a collection of HTTP Status Codes references by the IETF that are currently in use

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HTTP/HTML: Missing HTTP-Body/HTML on Redirect

Posted on 16 Jun 2010 by hakre

This bothers me often: unfriendly redirects.

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Prevent XSS on your wordpress Blog with CSP

Posted on 1 Jun 2010 by hakre

CSP – short for Content Security Policy – is a Mozilla driven specification to reduce or eliminate a site’s XSS attack surface. In Ticket #10237 Denis De Bernardy suggested to implement the new Mozilla feature to prevent XSS. That was … Continue reading →

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