Is the use of “utf8=✓” preferable to “utf8=true”?
I have recently seen a few URIs containing the query parameter “utf8=✓”. My first impression (after thinking “mmm, looks cool”) was that this could be used to detect a broken character encoding.
Why shouldn’t a GET request change data on the server?
All over the internet, I see the following advice:
NDIS Driver Filter VS API Hooking
I’ve seen many developers asking for “How to intercept in/out HTTP packets “, “How to modify them on the fly”. The most “clean” answer I’ve seen is to make a kernel-mode-driver filter from the scratch (TDI for XP and earlier winx9 or NDIS for NT systems).
Choosing how to approach Geocoding Requests
I am about to begin writing a program in c# that will read Addresses from a source file create a Geocoding request, sent it to Google Maps API, get the response choose the coordinates from the xml and then store them in a database.
How to persist temporary data over multiple HTTP requests?
In our webapplication we have a list of questions that have to be answered by the user. These questions are served to the user one by one and will be saved once the last question has been answered.
The Request/Response Cycle
When User A decides he want to pay a visit to http://example.com/ it all begins with a Request. A short moment later he is given a Response. In this cycle Request-Response a lot is going on, in different frameworks it’s decoupled in different components among them Routing, Dispatching, etc.
Is it safe to transmit access tokens via HTTP headers?
It’s the first RESTful web service and I am concerned about security issues. Is it safe to transmit my access token via HTTP headers? For example:
How to Handle Large File Uploads in Angular and Hibernate Without Exceeding HTTP Request Size Limit?
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I am working on an application using Angular (front-end) and Hibernate (back-end). My use case involves uploading multiple images, which I convert to base64 format and send as JSON with additional information for each image from the front-end.
Why can data sent from the server be in a variety of formats, but sent to the server it can only be a string
I recently ran into an error, I guess caused by my lack of understanding of how HTTP works, where I was sending a JSON object to the server to be stored in session data, and then sent back to the client at a later time.
Why can data sent from the server be in a variety of formats, but sent to the server it can only be a string
I recently ran into an error, I guess caused by my lack of understanding of how HTTP works, where I was sending a JSON object to the server to be stored in session data, and then sent back to the client at a later time.