Questions tagged [http]
HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol and is the protocol used to transfer information around the World Wide Web.
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I think my company has suffered from a DNS hijack/spoof or something
Connections to my company's website using http rather than https are redirected another site.
Avast seems to block the site and users (me at least) are redirected to https and all is good.
With virus ...
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http 400 error when using nginx reverse proxy
I have set up nginx to reverse to several OLD APC webadmin http pages with no issues. when i used modern things like homeassistant things start getting stupid. i am currently getting a 400 error for ...
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Nginx 1.18 Proxy: Backend response alignment issues with Apache 2.4 (Leaking adjacent response headers)
I am troubleshooting a production issue where my Nginx 1.18 reverse proxy appears to be desynchronizing from an Apache 2.4.41 backend.
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During high-concurrency testing or when using ...
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Suspicious GET requests errors in Nginx log
I'm checking Nginx logs by tail -f /var/log/nginx/error.log, the Nginx is running in docker container, and seeing below errors:
root@8cf99e6a536b:/# tail -f /var/log/nginx/error.log
2026/05/05 17:00:...
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Redirect no HTTPS Site A to HTTPS Site B
I have this rule set in Apache:
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} http://www.siteA.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} http://SiteA.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^SiteA.co.uk$ [NC]
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How to reliably distinguish a real website outage from ISP / firewall / geo blocking?
I'm looking for a reliable, repeatable way to confirm whether a website is actually down,
or if the issue is caused by access restrictions rather than a service outage.
Typical scenarios I've ...
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A simple HTTP server with the ability to adjust file download speed
To test a Windows client application, I need the ability to stream large files so that the application can download them using HTTPS.
As far as I understand, I need to set up an HTTP server.
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How can I write data from within the UEFI shell if the medium is mounted as a CD ISO?
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I want to run some commands inside the UEFI shell and then send the resulting logs to a log server. The problem is that I don’t have access to any writable media while I’m inside the ...
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Is it possible to ignore (discard) an http(s) request instead of returning an error (Apache-2.4)?
Is it possible to configure apache 2.4 to simply swallow and ignore an invalid request, instead of returning an error?
Right now I have a virtual host set up as follows:
<Directory />
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Apache httpd keeps rewriting VirtualHost on separate port to use HTTPS instead of HTTP
We have an organization web site for internal users (only). We have the httpd server set up to host everything with normal HTTPS SSL encryption, except for one VirtualHost on a specific port, due to ...
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TCP firewall rules on http3 with QUIC
HTTP3 uses QUIC. QUIQ is UDP. Does this mean all router firewall rules for port 80 and 443 must be changed from TCP to UDP?
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DNS Failover forced using HTTP response
I was looking into DNS based failover (I have two A records for a domain) and found that it is application and port specific.
In my case I have an application running on two servers and if one server ...
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Webserver not responding to requests through NAT firewall
I am setting up a firewall to guard a web server. I don't need it to be secure since it is not publicly available and will not be in the near future. But I need to set up the firewall so that the ...
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Apache: Disable redirect from http to https?
I have an apache web server running legacy application (intranet) that use http (not https). Now with the update to Chrome 135, users are always getting redirected to https. I'm not sure if the ...
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How to set up git-http-backend with appropriate permissions to make repos also accessible via SSH
The situation: Debian12 host, apache2 httpd serving git CGI (located in /repos/git) for cloning repos. Repos are stored in /repos directory, and are owned by git user to enable ssh access to them (e.g....
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