HTTP Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Evolving the Web: Discovering the History of HTTP Versions

  HTTP/1.1 was such a game changer for the Internet that it works so well that even through two revisions, RFC 2616 published in June 1999 and RFC 7230– RFC 7235 published in June 2014, HTTP/1.1 was extremely stable until the release of HTTP/2.0 in 2014 — Nearly 18 years later. Before continuing to the next section about HTTP/2.0, let us revisit what journey HTTP/1.1 has been through. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

• Poll: Are client web requests sent to upstream servers or downstream servers?

  On the one hand, it just seems natural that "upstream" refers to the inbound request being sent from one system to another. It takes effort (connection pooling, throttling, retries, etc.) to make a request to an (upstream) dependency, just as it takes effort to swim upstream. The response is (usually) easy... Just return it... hence, "downstream". Recall the usual meaning of "upload" and "download". Upstream seems... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• How to cache TCP, SSL handshake on ALB?

  To me it sounds like you’ve not solved this as the config you’ve mentioned is about preventing “illegal” (none RFC7230 ) requests, it isn’t really related to the problem you posted. Source: over 2 years ago

• HTTP Protocol Overview

  The program you are using to send data to the server may or may not automatically determine the right content-type header for your data, and knowing how to set and check headers is an essential skill. To learn more about the HTTP protocol check out the MDN guide or read the official standard, RFC 7230. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Show HN: Micro HTTP server in 22 lines of C

  It's neat, but I don't believe it is a compliant implementation of HTTP/1.1 (or 1.0). For example, it does not handle percent-encoded characters in the request URI.[1][2] [1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7230#section-3.1.1 [2]: https://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/spec.html#Request-URI. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Let's Stop Building APIs Around a Network Hack

  This is wrong. HTTP/1.0 had a keep-alive header field as mentioned in the HTTP/1.1 RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#appendix-A.1.2 But in HTTP/1.1 that's the default: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-6.3

     o  If the received protocol is HTTP/1.1 (or later), the connection will persist after the current response; else,.

  - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• An HTTP server in a single .c file

  Context: RFC 2616 and RFC 7230 require CRLF line endings instead of just LF. 1. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616 2. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago