Top "Http-headers" questions

In the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), HTTP header fields contain the operating parameters of an HTTP request or response.

Is there a practical HTTP Header length limit?

I have a web application that adds contextual information to XmlHttpRequest objects using the setRequestHeader API. I am using a …

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HTTP Cache Control max-age, must-revalidate

I have a couple of queries related to Cache-Control. If I specify Cache-Control max-age=3600, must-revalidate for a static html/js/…

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header("Content-type: text/css"); is working in Firefox and Chrome, but in Internet Explorer 9 it shows up as 'text/html'

header("Content-type: text/css"); works in Firefox, Chrome and other, but not in Internet Explorer 9. I am not sure what's …

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Return a PHP page as an image

I am trying to read a image file (.jpeg to be exact), and 'echo' it back to the page output, …

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What character encoding should I use for a HTTP header?

I'm using a "fun" HTML special-character (✰)(see http://html5boilerplate.com/ for more info) for a Server HTTP-header and am …

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How big can a user agent string get?

If you were going to store a user agent in a database, how large would you accomdate for? I found …

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Send HTTP request manually via socket

When I send a normal HTTP request via a socket, the server does not respond with an OK response. I …

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What are Content-Language and Accept-Language?

I have seen the HTTP headers of Content-Language and Accept-Language, could someone explain what these are for and the difference …

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What is the X-REQUEST-ID http header?

I have already googled a lot this subject, read various articles about this header, its use in Heroku, and projects …

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Set cookies for cross origin requests

How to share cookies cross origin? More specifically, how to use the Set-Cookie header in combination with the header Access-Control-Allow-Origin? …

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