Links tagged “http”

weli.dev

the system everybody rebuilds and nobody names.

rfc-editor.org

RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method - a real HTTP method for search, safe and idempotent, with a request body. No more choosing between a GET with a body that nothing guarantees and a POST that lies about what it does.

mareksuppa.com

HTTP requests without curl, using Bash /dev/TCP: the kind of TIL that makes you reread your own shell. A request with nothing but Bash.

rfc-editor.org

RFC 10008, the new HTTP QUERY method: a body-carrying, cacheable, idempotent way to ask questions. Finally standard.

mnot.net

So you want to define a well-known URI: how to add a /.well-known/ entry without making a mess, by someone who would know.

blog.calif.io

Codex discovered a hidden HTTP/2 bomb: a flooding vulnerability found with an LLM in the loop. Vendor blog, but the bug is real and well documented.

blainsmith.com

Tracing HTTP requests with Go’s net/http/httptrace: instrument DNS, TCP, TLS and TTFB with nothing but the standard library.

httptoolkit.com

What is X-Forwarded-For and when can you trust it? (2024)

florian-kraemer.net

Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful

thenewstack.io

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w3c.github.io

The retired W3C Preload specification; the URL now redirects to the preload link type in the WHATWG HTML Standard, where the feature is maintained.

ngrok.com

A tunnelling service that exposes a locally running app at a public URL, with a web inspector for the HTTP traffic passing through it.

pawelmhm.github.io

Benchmarks python-aiohttp making up to a million HTTP requests, with asyncio client code and a comparison against synchronous alternatives.

gaffer.readthedocs.io

Documentation for Gaffer, a Python tool that launches, supervises and controls applications and jobs across machines through an HTTP API.

medium.com

A walk through the internals of Python's requests library — sessions, prepared requests and streaming — written after porting Apache Libcloud off httplib.

http2.github.io

Home page for HTTP/2, the IETF HTTP Working Group's revision of the web's protocol, linking the specifications, FAQ and known implementations.

cassette.readthedocs.io

Documentation for Cassette, a Python library that stores the HTTP requests an application makes and replays them later.

url.spec.whatwg.org

WHATWG living standard defining URL parsing and serialisation, domains, IP addresses, the application/x-www-form-urlencoded format and the URL API.

aiohttp.readthedocs.io

Documentation for aiohttp, an asynchronous HTTP client and server library for Python's asyncio, with WebSocket and middleware support.