HTTP header fields are a list of strings sent and received by both the client program and server on every HTTP request and response. These headers are...
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The message consists only of the status line and optional header fields, and is terminated by an empty line. As the HTTP/1.0 standard did not define...
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computing, the User-Agent header is an HTTP header intended to identify the user agent responsible for making a given HTTP request. Whereas the character...
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In HTTP, "Referer" (a misspelling of "Referrer") is an optional HTTP header field that identifies the address of the web page (i.e., the URI or IRI) from...
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compression HTTP/2 – developed by the IETF's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (httpbis) working group List of HTTP header fields List of HTTP status codes...
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Do Not Track (redirect from Do-Not-Track-Header)
deprecated non-standard HTTP header field designed to allow internet users to opt out of tracking by websites—which includes the collection of data regarding a...
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Transparency HTTP Strict Transport Security List of HTTP header fields DNS Certification Authority Authorization Public Key Pinning Extension for HTTP (HPKP)...
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Basic access authentication (redirect from HTTP basic authentication)
password when making a request. In basic HTTP authentication, a request contains a header field in the form of Authorization: Basic <credentials>, where...
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X-Forwarded-For (redirect from XFF header)
X-Forwarded-For (XFF) HTTP header field is a common method for identifying the originating IP address of a client connecting to a web server through an HTTP proxy or...
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Chunked transfer encoding (redirect from HTTP Chunking)
displayed as Wikipedia in chunks. List of HTTP header fields HTTP/2. June 2022. sec. 8.1. doi:10.17487/RFC9113. RFC 9113. HTTP/2 uses DATA frames to carry message...
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death Funky caching Link rot List of HTTP status codes Fielding, R; Reschke, J, eds. (June 2014). "404 Not Found". HTTP/1.1 Semantics and Content. Internet...
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server to the user agent via an HTTP response header field named Strict-Transport-Security. HSTS Policy specifies a period of time during which the user agent...
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Transfer-Encoding header field may indicate the payload of an HTTP message is compressed. At a higher level, a Content-Encoding header field may indicate that...
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Location HTTP header field. RFC 1945 (HTTP 1.0) RFC 7231 (HTTP 1.1) Hypertext Transfer Protocol List of HTTP status codes Post/Redirect/Get HTTP 301 (Permanent...
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regardless of whether the cookie was set with or without a domain. Below is an example of some Set-Cookie header fields in the HTTP response of a website...
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PROPFIND request but did not also issue the required Depth header or issued a Depth header of infinity. A 403 status code can occur for the following reasons:...
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Temporarily" rather than "Found". An HTTP response with this status code will additionally provide a URL in the header field Location. This is an invitation...
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refers to the use of ordinary HTTP over an encrypted SSL/TLS connection. HTTPS encrypts all message contents, including the HTTP headers and the request/response...
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HTTP/3 uses similar semantics compared to earlier revisions of the protocol, including the same request methods, status codes, and message fields, but...
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User Datagram Protocol (redirect from IPv6 pseudo header)
This field specifies the length in bytes of the UDP datagram (the header fields and Data field) in octets. The minimum length is 8 bytes, the length of the...
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advantage of new features for increased speed. HTTP/2 leaves all of HTTP/1.1's high-level semantics, such as methods, status codes, header fields, and URIs...
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HTTP Message Body is the data bytes transmitted in an HTTP transaction message immediately following the headers if there are any (in the case of HTTP/0...
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Linkable Format § Section Header ISO 10303-21 § HEADER section Value change dump § Header section List of HTTP header fields This disambiguation page lists...
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com/newpage.html"); Here is an example using a PHP redirect: <?php header("Location: https://example.com/newpage.html", true, 301); exit; Here is one way...
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simulators List of HDL simulators List of historical Gnutella clients List of text editors List of HTML editors List of HTTP header fields List of information...
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Email (redirect from Email header fields)
message header fields at the IANA; it provides for permanent and provisional field names, including also fields defined for MIME, netnews, and HTTP, and...
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Generic routing encapsulation (section Packet header)
directly, use IP protocol type 47 in the IPv4 header's Protocol field or the IPv6 header's Next Header field. For performance reasons, GRE can also be encapsulated...
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JSON Web Token (section Standard fields)
send the JWT, typically in the Authorization HTTP header using the Bearer schema. The content of the header might look like the following: Authorization:...
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Digest access authentication (redirect from Http digest authentication)
perhaps aided by a dictionary or suitable look-up list, which for MD5 is readily available. The HTTP scheme was designed by Phillip Hallam-Baker at CERN...
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Executable and Linkable Format (section ELF header)
header defines whether to use 32-bit or 64-bit addresses. The header contains three fields that are affected by this setting and offset other fields that...
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