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 ...

Security headers are easily overlooked in website audits. While some may say that website security is not an SEO-related concern, it does become SEO-related when a site becomes hacked and search ...

A record sent by clients and servers communicating with each other via the HTTP protocol. The header is a stream of text that may be sent without any content following it or with the content that it ...

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 ...

This assumption breaks down because HTTP RFC flexibility allows different servers to interpret the same header field in fundamentally different ways, creating exploitable gaps that attackers are ...

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 ...

Google's John Mueller felt the need to post a PSA that said having an incorrect date set in your last modification date within your HTTP header won't hurt your SEO. He said on Mastodon, having an ...

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 ...

One of the most important assessments in any SEO audit is determining what hypertext transfer protocol status codes (or HTTP Status Codes) exist on a website. These codes can become complex, often ...