When it comes to optimizing your website for search engines, every detail matters — including the HTTP headers. But what exactly are HTTP headers, and why should you care? HTTP headers allow the ...

When the last version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol 1.1 (HTTP/1.1) was approved in 1999, fast computers were running 500MHz Pentium III chips, Bill Clinton was president of the United States, and ...

Web API projects provide a useful and structured way for devices and external systems to interact with your precious server resources. The typical implementation uses a combination of crafted URLs and ...

There's more to RESTful services than just using the HTTP verbs. You should also be leveraging the Location header and status code, for example. When REST was proposed as a way of leveraging the HTTP ...

A researcher has created a method for testing and identifying how HTTP/HTTPS headers can be abused to sneak malicious code into back-end servers. Daniel Thatcher, researcher and penetration tester at ...