Top "Rfc2616" questions

An RFC entitled "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1"

How to specify DELETE method in a link or form?

Rfc2616 lists many methods besides GET and POST, like, say, DELETE, PUT etc. Method field in html forms, though, seems …

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HTTP: What is the preferred Accept-Encoding for "gzip,deflate"?

This question is regarding the order of precedence for the media-types of the HTTP Header "Accept-Encoding" when all are of …

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Connection Close for HTTP request response

I have two questions on HTTP Connection close: If a client sends a HTTP request with Connection: close to HTTP …

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HTTP status codes : 204 OR 200 with body containing an empty object?

I'm having trouble to understand the use cases of the 204 HTTP status code. The RFC2616 says : 10.2.5 204 No Content The server …

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Are URIs case-insensitive?

When comparing two URIs to decide if they match or not, a client SHOULD use a case-sensitive octet-by-octet comparison of …

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What is the maximum chunk size in HTTP response with Transfer-Encoding chunked?

The w3.org (RFC2616) seems not to define a maximum size for chunks. But without a maximum chunk-size there is …

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"no-cache" ​vs "max-age=0, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate"

What's the​ difference between a HTTP response with Cache-Control: no-cache vs Cache-Control: max-age=0, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate? Do browsers treat that as …

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Under what conditions are HTTP request headers removed by proxies?

I'm looking at various methods of RESTfully versioning APIs, and there are three major contenders. I believe I've all but …

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Use of Accept-charset HTTP header

What are the differences and advantages of using one over the other: Accept: application/json;charset=utf-8 versus: Accept: application/…

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HTTP 1.1 Pipelining

I have to implement an HTTP client in Java and for my needs it seems that the most efficient way …

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