Questions tagged [http]
All about programs and services that use the Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
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Changing filepath of outgoing request
I'm trying to look for a workaround with a problem with the latest FFXIV update. The launcher tries to access
https://frontier.ffxiv.com/version_4_0_win/version_4_0_win/index.html
when it should be ...
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Video LAN Client over The Onion Router (VLC over TOR)
VLC over TOR
VLC does have proxy settings, but dose not work anymore. In a older VLC version it works. I already streamed over TOR with VLC.
torrc (TOR configuration file)
SOCKSPort 127.0.0.1:9050
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HTTP load generators with request number counter
I'm looking for an HTTP load generators like ab, wrk that sends the current counter of the load test (i.e. "2416th request") to the server (through an header or query parameter).
Does a load ...
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How to fix syntax error for [not allowed here]?
I have set 2 headers below for converting SAML values returning from Siteminder to HTTP header.
MellonSetEnvNoPrefix YYY_ID yyy
MellonSetEnvNoPrefix XXX_ROLE xxx
I got the error below after starting ...
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Bash displaying gibberish after specific incoming request
I set up a new, basic Linux server (CentOS in this case) just for testing purposes. In there, without any firewalls and all that I'm running a Python web application. Basically I type python run.py ...
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How to send binary file URL in the curl command instead passing local path
I am trying to post a binary .apk file which is on s3 bucket to a POST API.
Local way which I know is:
curl -X POST https://xxx.example.com:443/api/storage/upload -H "Content-Type:application/octet-...
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running curl with sudo results in a status code 301 (Moved Permanently)
i have a test server running on port 3062, i want to send it HTTP POST data using curl
when i run the following command :
curl -d '{"k1":"v1","k2","v2"}' -X POST http://localhost:3062
it works fine ...
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`svn checkout` over HTTP gives error E000104 but `svn ls` works
I am unable to svn checkout a repository (served over HTTP) from work but I can from home. I am, however, able to svn list as well as view the repository in a web browser when at work. This is the ...
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Concurrent requests from node.js process are far too slow - is the OS limiting them
I have a node.js script, it makes a http request to a url N number of times using two different techniques. First it does it serially, then it does it using the node.js Promise api (all the requests ...
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GET via wget or cURL gives a limited response
I'm bumping my head on a simple HTTP GET request.
Using a tool like Postman, I'm getting the full and expected response (an over 1 thousand lines xml document, displaying the details of my 60 albums)
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Does HTTP `TRACE` method do the same thing as `curl --trace`?
Does HTTP TRACE method do the same thing as curl --trace?
Stephen said at Does `curl -v` show the complete HTTP request including the body?:
the TRACE HTTP method affects the server’s behaviour, ...
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What HTTP request and response headers do `curl --cert` and `curl --cacert` read and write?
From https://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html
In the HTTPS world, you use certificates to validate that you are the
one you claim to be, as an addition to normal passwords. Curl supports
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What is the purpose of “use curl --cookie with a file that doesn't exist”?
From https://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html
Curl's "cookie engine" gets enabled when you use the --cookie option.
If you only want curl to understand received cookies, use --cookie
with a ...
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getting issue when I try to connect with NASL localhost [closed]
when I'm trying to connect with NASL using telnet, the connection is getting closed. here is the command and the response which I got.
ubuntu-64-sumit@ubuntu-64-sumit:~$ telnet 192.168.20.8 80
Trying ...
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Wireshark not showing HTTP queries
I am trying to using Wireshark, but when I set filter into http Wireshark not displaying any data.
Unfortunately, I can see only tcp/dhcp/arp protocols, but not http:
My Wireshark preferences:
I ...
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Get HTTP header response with telnet in shell script using a proxy
I need to get the http header response from a server (google) with telnet, as i don't have curl or wget in my busybox environment. Also, I'm behind a proxy.
So on the command line I can successfully ...
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Capture http token with tcpdump
My server runs curl commands to some API using a token. For example:
curl --header "Private-Token: aaaaaaaaaaaaaa" http://mysite.example.com/api/v4/any
Can i capture with tcpdump all of the requests ...
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UFW deny specific port access over HTTPS?
We're running a dev server on some IP and have our API exposed on port 5000 and nginx listening on 80. However, the entire backend will crash when one makes an HTTPS request to port 5000. Thus, I ...
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Accessing a linux file content through an url
I want to access a Linux file content through an url. When we access the url we can see the content of that file being displayed in the screen. Is there any procedure to do this.
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Different page from a browser and wget [closed]
EDITED TO REMOVE OBSOLETE EXAMPLES
I have a very curious case that has dumbfounded me.
I was trying to get a certificate from letsencrypt and I was consistently getting errors that certbot is unable ...
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How to redirect website in restricted network through ssh tunnel
I have established a reverse ssh tunnel into a restricted network to an aws server, i.e. to access it, I ssh into the aws server and from there I get access to the machine in the restricted network on ...
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yum install fails with 401 Authorization required [closed]
I am running Red Hat Linux 6.2
Trying to install nfs packages using yum
Following is the
repository list
repo id repo name ...
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libcurl post request from debian 7 to debian 9 gnutls handshake error
I have a problem with libcurl returning an SSL error, let me describe the situation:
There are two machines with Debian, the client is Debian 7 and the server is Debian 9, the client uses libcurl to ...
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How to avoid forwarding ports?
I am doing UDP socket programming in C. In order to listen to a port, I need to forward ports in my router. My question is how to avoid doing that and still being able to communicate over the internet,...
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Wget: downloading files selectively and recursively?
Question about wget, subfolder, and index.html.
Let's say I am inside "travels/" folder and this is in "website.com": "website.com/travels/".
Folder "travels/" contains a lot of files and other (sub)...
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Strict-Transport Header HSTS
I need to configure the HSTS (HTTP Strict-Transport Header) in Linux. I have added the following on the Tomcat/Conf Web.xml file:
httpHeaderSecurity
org.apache.catalina.filters....
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Redirect output without telnet information to file
I am trying to download a binary file from an HTTP server with GNU Telnet, a tar archive to be exact. I can currently download regular files, but I can't properly redirect the output to a file. The ...
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Citrix Receiver: HTTP.REQ
In netscaler, we can set the policy expression HTTP.REQ.User-Agent to a string. If request came from Citrix Receiver with this field as given string, then netscaler allows a connection.
I would like ...
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HTTP client saving download metadata
I am looking for a way to download files from the Web, while saving download metadata, like the requested URI, the returned status code and maybe even TLS certificate information (server certificate ...
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Unable to use curl with cookie-jar
I am trying to use curl for login request automation. Here, use of cookie-jar is must. When I use --cooki-jar cjar option, it shows following error.
root@kali:~# curl --cookie-jar cjar --output /root/...
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What is the fastest tool to sync http listening files
I have a huge number of files (text files) listening on http server.
I am using cron-job to download these files as the number of files will grow dramatically.
I am using wget as follows to download ...
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How to make Apache ErrorDocuments unreachable by normal http requests?
The Apache documentation explains, how can we set up custom error pages for different HTTP errors, identified by their status code (401, 403, 404, 500, 503 and so on).
However, what this document ...
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Help with script for passing traffic
I'm trying to write a script to test our proxy servers to see if they're passing traffic.
I wrote this code below to implement "httpie" tool but still having issues. Can someone please take a look ...
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Non-logging REST API: How can I write all HTTP(s) requests and responses to a file?
I have a daemon, call it whatverd, running on TCP port 11111. It is basically an http server, but it does not do any kind of logging or debugging. It only returns query results via JSON in the http(s) ...
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SSH HTTP tunnel not working
I'm trying to learn how to use SSH tunnels. For this, I took two VPS. I want to forward http traffic from vps-1 through vps-2. I tried to configurate tunnels by
ssh -L 80:127.0.0.1:80 ramirag@95.216....
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What is the easiest way to set up a HTTP request logger
What is the easiest way to set up something locally to listen for GET requests on a custom port?
So that I could do curl -X GET -i 'localhost:34331/hello'
And verify that the request was received ...
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Are there any tools to monitor network requests at very low-level?
I would like to monitor the web/ftp requests made by Zypper when we install a package. But none of the suggested network monitoring tools seem to identify the requests made by Zypper.
So far, I've ...
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connect to server with netcat and receive *multiple* files with one request/connection
Say I have an http or tcp server running, which serves tarballs (.tgz files).
Is there some way I can receive files individually so I can do something like this:
nc localhost 5000 | how can I read ...
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Very slow HTTP requests over time on embedded Linux
An application I'm developing is gradually getting slower and slower to run HTTP/HTTPS requests over time. It's running on Buildroot embdded Linux on some quite old and slow hardware. After a few ...
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Viewing content of http body from apache2 logging
so I am sending custom http post/get/put requests to my apache2 server and I would like to log exactly what is received by the server. So far I am using ForensicLog module and that allows me to see ...
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Why isn't Android's Captive Portal detection triggering a browser window?
I have a Raspberry Pi that is hosting a simple website using nginx. The
RPi is acting as a Wireless Access Point - users can connect to its wireless
network, the RPi gives them an IP (it runs a DHCP ...
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iptables HTTP ratelimit exclusion with --string Debian 8
I am trying to limit HTTP requests to maximum 20 requests/second if more than that reject but i want to exclusion requests to (.png,.js,.css) files from this rule, I used the following code
iptables -...
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Can't get 200 OK when checking URL?
I was trying to follow this tutorial: https://www.shellhacks.com/check-website-availability-linux-command-line/
When using the curl -Is http://www.shellhacks.com | head -1command, I am unable to get ...
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Supplying curl with multiple options that require <file or input>
I'm trying to execute a curl command from the terminal.
I need to provide HTTP authentication
I need to POST a .jar file
This works when HTTP authentication is disabled:
curl --data-binary @~/file....
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tcpdump packets length mismatch
I'm trying to find out why my application has a huge network traffic, particularly, the outbound traffic.
Researching the issue, I found a number such packets where length mismatches the difference ...
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Download big file over bad connection
Is there an existing tool, which can be used to download big files over a bad connection?
I have to regularly download a relatively small file: 300 MB, but the slow (80-120 KBytes/sec) TCP connection ...
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add a header to incoming http request in a server
I have a ubuntu 16.04 server. It runs nginx webserver for the frontend part. Also the backend application runs in the same server.
Now the requirement is to add header to incoming http requests. And ...
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How can I use files from HTTP as prerequisites in GNU make?
I want to use files from the World Wide Web as prerequisites in my makefiles:
local.dat: http://example.org/example.gz
curl -s $< | gzip -d | transmogrify >$@
I only want to "transmogrify" ...
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HTTP status code for deprecated URL [closed]
I'd like to migrate a URL to a new URL. Because I want to do it properly, I'm thinking of using the 301 status code plus the new URL in the headers. However, I also plan to disable the old URL ...
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Why haproxy logs status code 200 when using “http-response set-status <not-200>”?
I am using haproxy 1.7.8.
I have a config that blocks requests with some specific abusers domains in HTTP Referer header.
Important parts of my haproxy config looks like this:
frontend ...
