A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Over at Smashing Magazine, Robin Marx has written a 3-part series on HTTP/3: After almost five years in development, the new HTTP/3 protocol is nearing its final form. Earlier iterations were already available as an experimental feature, but you can expect the availability and use of HTTP/3 proper to ramp up over in 2021. So …
HTTP is fundamental to modern development, from frontend to backend to mobile. But like any widespread mature standard, it’s got some funky skeletons in the closet. Some of these skeletons are little-known but genuinely useful features, some of them are legacy oddities relied on by billions of connections daily, and some of them really shouldn’t …
Continue reading “HTTPWTF — Looking at some of the HTTP quirks”
It’s been a while since I’ve set up a server with Node, but turns out Fastify is preferred over Express nowadays. Fastify is a web framework highly focused on providing the best developer experience with the least overhead and a powerful plugin architecture. It is inspired by Hapi and Express and as far as we …
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httpstat visualizes curl(1) statistics in a way of beauty and clarity. It is a single file🌟 Python script that has no dependency👏 and is compatible with Python 3🍻. Installation through PiP or HomeBrew: pip install httpstat brew install httpstat Once installed through one of those, you can directly call httpstat: httpstat https://www.bram.us/ httpstat – curl …
Expect: 100-continue header …
TL;DR HTTP clients may send a Expect: 100-continue header along with POST requests to warn the server that they’re about to send a large(ish) payload. At that point the server can: Decline, by sending back 401/405 and successively closing the connection. Accept, by sending back 100 Continue, after which the client will send over the …
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Chris White, on creating really fast HTTP requests in PHP, by manually building an HTTP request and sending a payload: Hand-crafting HTTP requests seemed like an unreliable method at first, but after some pretty extensive testing I can vouch for it reliably sending the requests and the remote server receiving them in full. It can …
Interesting to see that Swift can also be used as a serverside language. One can clearly see parallels with other languages and frameworks. For example Vapor comes with an HTTP Package, which – amongst other things – contains a Request class. // http://vapor.codes/example?query=hi#fragments-too let scheme = request.uri.scheme // http let host = request.uri.host // vapor.codes …
If you’re not familiar with the evolution of Guzzle, the library has basically gotten more professional and less usable with each new version. New layers upon layers of specification-respecting abstractions and rules made Guzzle incredibly difficult to get started with. Zttp solves just that, by keeping things simple: Zttp is a simple Guzzle wrapper designed …
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Firefox shipped with support for Cache-Control: Immutable: The benefits of immutable mean that when a page is refreshed, which is an extremely common social media scenario, elements that were previously marked immutable with an HTTP response header do not have to be revalidated with the server. No more 304‘s for those resources, because the browser …
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