Range requests enable you to retrieve partial content in lieu of the entire content for improved performance when working with WebAPI over HTTP. HTTP 1.1 provides support for range headers – it allows ...

Google announced they are now supporting the rel=”canonical” attribute within HTTP headers. This enables webmasters to set up a canonical for linking to or from ...

As part of putting together a request to a Web Service, I'm perfectly willing to modify the headers in the request to carry some data rather than put that data in the body of the request. There is a ...

This assumption breaks down because HTTP RFC flexibility allows different servers to interpret the same header field in fundamentally different ways, creating exploitable gaps that attackers are ...

The X-Robots-Tag can be a powerful addition to your SEO arsenal. Here’s what you need to know to employ this flexible tag to control how your site is crawled and indexed. Search engine optimization, ...

There's more to RESTful services than just using the HTTP verbs. You should also be leveraging the Location header and status code, for example. When REST was proposed as a way of leveraging the HTTP ...

All types of websites and web apps, ranging from single page websites to large multifaceted web apps, are vulnerable to cyber-attacks. In 2016 alone, around 40% of security breaches on data primarily ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three ...