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Types of Proxy Servers: SOCKS, HTTP(S), FTP, SSL A high-level overview of the various proxy server protocols available nowadays and the main benefits they provide

November 3, 2022November 3, 2022 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

From an IT networking perspective, a proxy server is a dedicated application that acts as an intermediary between a client that requests a resource and the server that provides that …

ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

HTTP Authorization methods: Sessions/Cookies, Bearer Tokens, API Keys, Signatures, Certificates An extensive overview of the most used HTTP-based authorization methods, techniques and approaches used in modern web sites and services

October 20, 2022 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In general terms, authorization refers to the permission or power to perform, carry out or exercise certain rights. In the IT field, authorization is defined as the process by which …

HTTP Request e Response - Cosa sono e come funzionano

Servers & Services / Web

HTTP Requests and Responses - What they are and how they work General overview of the HTTP request-response life cycle, HTTP Headers, Status Code, and other key concepts

July 6, 2022August 1, 2022 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

After the overview of HTTP, SSL/TLS, DNS, and URLs published a few days ago, in this article we will focus on one of the most important mechanisms underlying the functioning …

How to clear HTTP / HTTPS Redirect Cache by deleting the cached HSTS Settings in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox

Coding / Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

HTTP, SSL/TLS, DNS, URL, DDoS Attacks - Basic Concepts A high-level overview of some basic World Wide Web concepts: HTTP Protocol, SSL / TLS Certificates, Domain Name Servers, URLs, DDoS Attacks

June 7, 2022June 10, 2022 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In this article we will provide a general overview of the main concepts behind the World Wide Web as we know it today: the HTTP protocol, used by the browser …

Coding / JavaScript / Servers & Services / Web

Debouncing and Throttling in Angular with RxJS How to implement debouncing and throttling in an Angular app using the debounceTime and throttleTime operators provided by the RxJS library

November 20, 2020April 17, 2021 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

In this article we'll talk about Debouncing and Throttling, two optimization techniques that we might want to consider whenever we're developing an Angular app that needs features such as autocomplete, …

Coding / Web

Getting Started with Python and Django - Hello World Web App A small Python plus Django tutorial that will show you how to create your first Hello World web application using Python and Django

July 3, 2019July 4, 2019 - by Alice - Leave a Comment

Have you ever heard anything about Python? If you're reading this, I bet you do! Python is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language with an object-oriented approach: it was created …

Coding

Firefox - This address is restricted - Override Fix How to allow one or more non-standard HTTP / HTTPS ports from being opened by Mozilla Firefox, bypassing the "this address is restricted" error for good

April 16, 2019 - by Ryan - 4 Comments.

Mozilla Firefox is definitely a great browser and the developers community put a lot of effort on the security aspects, preventing malicious software and/or attackers from doing any harm to …

Coding / Servers & Services / SQL / Windows

SQL Server - Call a URL using GET or POST method and fetch Status Code and Response Text How to execute a GET or POST call to an external URL within a Stored Procedure (using HTTP or HTTPS protocol) and retrieve the StatusCode and ResponseText

November 9, 2018January 7, 2021 - by Ryan - 4 Comments.

We already talked about the MSXML2.XMLHTTP and MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP objects in an older post: these objects provides methods and properties for server-safe HTTP access between different Web servers and can be used to exchange …

IIS - How to setup the web.config file to send HTTP Security Headers with your web site (and score an A on securityheaders.io)

Cyber Security / Servers & Services / Web

NGINX - How to setup the nginx.conf file to send HTTP Security Headers with your web site (and score an A on securityheaders.io) How to setup the nginx.conf to secure all your Nginx-hosted websites with the required HTTP Security Headers and get A rate from securityheaders.io scan.

November 5, 2018August 14, 2019 - by Ryan - 2 Comments.

We already explained the basics about HTTP Security Headers in this previous post: it's now time to put all these words into action and learn how we can implement them …

ASP.NET Core 2 and Angular 5 book available for preorder on Amazon!

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The HTTP Request-Response Data Flow in Native Web Applications How the underlying HTTP Request-Response data flow works in a Native Web Application scenario

June 17, 2018June 17, 2018 - by Ryan - Leave a Comment

As most of us already know, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is designed to enable communications between clients and servers. HTTP works as a request-response protocol between a client and …