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My DNS record can only point to an IP address. How do I make it reach for a port?

I am fairly new to network administration and therefore am already excited to have successfully set up a DNS record. Now I am a bit confused, because I would like to have this URL: http://www....
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How do I configure nginx to accept gzip requests?

I know that you can use nginx HttpGzipModule to gzip responses. Can you als use it to enable nginx to handle gzip-compressed requests, i.e. ones with the request header: Content-Encoding: gzip ? Note:...
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What are these weird access requests?

I using WAMPServer on my computer for testing and development. I forgot and left it online for a few days and I notice a bunch of random requests that aren't even from my IP. Here are some examples. ...
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Separate Nginx access log file for certain requests only

As far as I can see Nginx supports by default 2 log files: error_log (tracks issues related to the Nginx server itself) and access_log (tracks requests processed by Nginx). Whilst it is possible to ...
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Chrome DevTools - Request Header Size

Is there a way to get the total size (in bytes) of the request header that the browser is sending to the server for each request?
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Why is PHP $_REQUEST array empty?

I installed nginx on Ubuntu Hardy and immediately realized that the PHP scripts were getting empty request arrays, ie whether GET or POST nothing was coming through, even the $_REQUEST array was empty....
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Getting a chunked request through nginx

First some background: We have an embedded device that uploads a lot of small events to a web server. Chunked encoding is used to post this information. Every event is send as a seperate chunk, so the ...
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Need to DUPLICATE HTTP requests to two servers

We're developing an new server to replace an old one, and want to put the side by side for before & after tests - so that we can compare the end result and find the discrepancies. The input to ...
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Requests in IIS' "SendResponse" state stuck for a long time; Slow IIS 7.5/ASP.NET 4.0 web application

I have a set of very beefy, very underutilized servers which are running a couple virtual machines with Windows Server 2008 R2 and IIS 7.5. The problem: Sometimes requests take a very long time to ...
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How to dynamically set HTTP Header in Apache 2.2?

Seems like this should be easy, but I cannot figure out the syntax. In Apache, I want to use the value of an existing request header to set a new request header. Some simple non-working code that ...
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What's wrong with this HTTP POST request?

I'm trying to fuzz a server using the Sulley fuzzing framework. I observe the following stream in Wireshark. The error talks about a problem with JSON parsing, however, when I try the same HTTP POST ...
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Parse HTTP requests through Wireshark?

Is there any way to parse HTTP request data in wireshark? For example, can I expose the request parameters upon an HTTP GET request (being sent by my machine), so that I don't need to read the (...
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nginx redirect based on $request_uri

In my default site config file, I have the following redirect to enforce https : server { listen 80; server_name www.example.com example.com; return 301 https://example.com$...
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HAProxy - Add response header based on request host

I have a HAProxy set up to redirect traffic to a few internal servers. What I'm trying to do is to set some response headers, based on the request host. Unfortunately I can't get it to work. Current ...
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List all available templates from CA certutil or certreq

I need to request a certificate via command line I have investigated that certreq is the tool that can request the certificate. I am used to the gui to request the certificate by selecting one of the ...
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Apache error - File name too long: Cannot map GET

I have PHP Laravel application installed on my CentOS VPS. It is backend for my mobile application that has been recently updated. Unfortunately I wrote some bad code that results in making request ...
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Weird Requests Being Sent to My Server [duplicate]

I have written a server in C# for windows and it works fine. A week back I setup a dynamic domain name with No-Ip.com and now my server serves pages at the address nabeel.ddns.net. I was viewing my ...
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Certificate distribution and management

I am planning to setup PKI for our organization as we're fed up with all of these security warnings when using self-signed certs. I want an offline root CA and two issuing CAs and I want to set that ...
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How do I use Squid to redirect an incomig request to another host?

I'm trying to integrate an internal GitLab installation with a Slack incoming webhook but I have a problem, the machine where GitLab can only access other machines in the same network. I have VM which ...
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How does a browser request from CNAME?

Let me put it this way: 1.cname.com has a record of X.X.X.X www.domain.com has a record of 1.cname.com When a user request www.domain.com from within his/her browser,his/her browser will send an ...
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cannot access ssl-secured website on the server side

I am having problems accessing a website, that recentely got SSL-security, on the server side. Accessing the website like normal is not a problem, but when I try to open the website on the server ...
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Rails + Nginx + Unicorn increase post data size ( 414 Request-URI Too Large)

I get 414 (Request-URI Too Large) exception on my POST Request while sending bulk date to my server. Is it possible to increase the limit of POST data? I have done following change in nginx ...
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How to filter external HTTP requests using on remote host location and GET parameters with Tomcat8?

I have a tomcat 8 web applications server and it has a running application (/app). This /app can be accessed from both internal and external HTTP GET requests but 1 request from external should be ...
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Azure ASP.NET website http requests queued

We have a website deployed on Azure that has dreadful performance. When load increases, response times increase to whole minutes! CPU load is not even high, somewhere in the 40% region (we run one ...
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Best way to check out body content of http POST request on linux

I'm using ngrep for checking out http headers, I've never managed to get something transparent out of tcpdump and I don't like GUI apps like wireshark. ngrep is great, but I can't seem to find a way ...
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Is HTTP PUT request compressed if I am using mod_deflate or gzip on apache?

I am receiving xml files on my server using the HTTP PUT request. Is it compressed during the transfer if my Apache is configured with mod_deflate? How can I verify that it is compress? If not, how ...
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Can a server do internal HTTP-Requests?

say I have a JSP-script on a server that's called from the browser. This script internally calls another source to get some data. This internal source is a script that's on the same machine. I s it ...
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EKS Pods with ephemeral-storage constantly evicted

I'm working on EKS v1.20.11-eks-f17b81 and I'm facing an issue with a Java container Alpine based. Basically my deployment have the limits of ephemeral-storage for the request's and also the limit's ...
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POSTs vanish, arrive as GETs [closed]

We were experiencing problems where users would end up at our site with "empty GET requests". By this I mean that they originated on the external site as POST requests with several params, but the ...
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Should the maximum number of request threads be similar to the maximum number of database connections?

I have a spring boot application with an embedded tomcat server. The max-threads setting of tomcat is currently set to 250. Next to that the spring boot application also uses a MySql database as the ...
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AWS Elastic Load Balancer And 408 Request Timeout

We have a scenario where we are trying to access Openfire admin console behind AWS ELB using https. The http url works fine , but the https does not work, and we see a 408 request timeout error while ...
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What is a good, HTTP[S] proxy that is customizable in Python? [closed]

Trying to find a good HTTP proxy that I can customize with Python. Hopefully, this proxy library or application would allow me to add custom plugins for the request / response cycle - particularly a ...
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How should I use a proxy server to access the internet - with custom Python plugins for request processing? [closed]

We're trying to understand how to set up a proxy server for our Web application. We need several processes to access the Internet through a proxy server in the internal network. Ideally, we could ...
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Eucalyptus Walrus Connection Problems

I'm beginning with Eucalyptus, with some S3 and EC2 background. I have an app for which I use a personal library to interface with S3 and store/retrieve files from there. Now I want to make my app ...
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URL generates a 302 redirect when clicking it in a link for most browsers - but returns 200 when typing it

I am setting up a small website on Joomla and came across a weird redirect problem. I wanted to include a link in my website to a Forum that is set up in a different server. When I type or copy/...
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how to get request body in varnish

I am currently working on a project based on varnish.. we write vcl and vmod. But the project need check the request body. Buddies, How can I get request body in VCL or vmod with a C function? Help ...
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How to get size of HTTP request and response including protocol overhead?

I am working on an IoT-related research project with several devices. However, my project partner responsible for the infrastructure restricted the traffic for each device to a maximum of 500 MB per ...
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Perform HTTP request through non-default gateway (CURL? WGET?) [closed]

I have two ISPs /two routers on my LAN with Windows boxes. Switching default gateway (per PC) works fine, so I can choose my outgoing traffic from particular PC to be initiated from whichever ISP I ...
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Setting to limit allowed time for an IIS 7 request to complete?

In IIS 7, you can view the worker processes and see which requests are currently executing. I am encountering some requests that remain in the "ExecuteRequestHandler" stage for hours - basically until ...
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Strange 404 url requests

I'm running a nodejs server with the express framework. I'm using Keymetrics.io to keep track of my app's status. I have been keeping track of 500 and 404 errors and sending them to Keymetrics and ...
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How to get custom WebDAV server working with MS mini-redirector

I wrote a custom WebDAV server that authenticates users from a database and serves a virtual file system based on records from a database. It is working well with 3rd party WebDAV clients but does ...
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Apache executed only one request and all other requestes wait first to finish

I have a basic install of Apache2 server and PHP5.3 on my local Ubuntu machine. I created file index.php and put sleep 30 seconds in it <?php sleep(30); // script sleep 30s ?> When i run "...
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How to redirect external web request to localhost's testing server

Some web services calls my web application(www.myapplication.com/external_update_handler). I need to test those requests locally, so I'd like to know your opinions about how can I "redirect" those ...
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Apache Connection vs. Request

I apologize in advance if this is a basic question, but I am quite confused after reading the Apache documentation and other tutorials. Does a single Apache prefork process serve all HTTP requests ...
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Nginx rewrite to specific part of requested uri

I am quite new to nginx rewrite concept and I can't figure out how to rewrite the requested_uri to a specific Uri. I am trying to make rewrites to specific js files. For example, I have this ...
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Haproxy routing to single backup server from multiple nodes

I have several small server and one big server that contain mirror of that several small server. Let's call it Server A, Server B, Server C and Server D for group of small server, and the big server ...
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NGINX should not change the URL in the Browser Address Bar

I hope you can help me on the following matter. I have NGINX Running and want to forward to .html (virtual pages) to index.php?view=$args without changing the URL, which is shown in the Browser ...
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Apache Load Balancer: Forward request to multiple balancer members

I got a Apache Load Balancer with two balancer members. When a specific request is sent to the Apache Server (for example "localhost:80/replace") I want to forward this request to all balancer members....
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How to set global request timeout in IIS 7.5?

We run a Windows Server 2008 VM with IIS 7.5, and on top of that we run Coldfusion 9. After some server performance issues last week, I saw that backlogged requests in IIS were not timing out. We ...
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Acceptable HTTP request-response delay

What is the acceptable HTTP request-response delay? I have a client-server application that takes 0.4 milliseconds as request-response delay. is this delay acceptable according to the standard?, ...
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