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Cloudflare announced that it closed all HTTP connections and it is now accepting only secure, HTTPS connections for api.cloudflare.com. The move prevents unencrypted API requests from being sent, even ...

Lightning HTTP 402 Protocol, also known as L402, is a way to charge for services and authenticate users in distributed networks. It combines two powerful tools — Macaroons, and of course, the ...

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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) completed work on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol 2 (HTTP/2) standard earlier this week. This new protocol will replace current versions of HTTP (1.0 and 1.1 ...

HTTP/3, the next major iteration of the HTTP protocol, is getting a big boost today with support added in Cloudflare, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. Starting today, Cloudflare announced that ...

ASP.Net Web API is a lightweight framework used for building stateless and RESTful HTTP services. Protocol Buffers from Google is an extremely fast, language independent, platform-neutral, extensible ...

“API” is an acronym for application programming interface, a set of protocols that allows two software programs to communicate. APIs are used to power web applications and integrate different software ...

HTTP/3 breaks from HTTP/2 by adopting the QUIC protocol over TCP. Here's a first look at the new standard and what it means for web developers. It’s no surprise that evolving the vast protocol ...

Sending data in plain text just doesn’t cut it in an age of abundant hack attacks and mass metadata collection. Some of the biggest names on the Web—Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.—have already ...