Questions tagged [http]
For code that acts as a HTTP client or server.
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Detecting the content type of a given http body/string
I am trying to detect the content/mime type of a given Buffer/string. In other words, I am trying to guess what on earth is a given string.
My approach is somewhat brute-force:
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Open the best Reddit posts with Nim
I wanted to try out the Nim language so I wrote a simple program to retrieve the top \$n\$ messages on a given subreddit in a given time frame and open them in the default browser.
I would really ...
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System to automatically login to my university's Wi-Fi network using HTTP request
What is this?
My university's Wi-Fi network requires students to visit a specific URL and login to the network before we can use the actual internet. This project replicates that same process by ...
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HttpClient retry handler on response 429
When the remote server returns a 429 (Too Many Requests) response with the Retry-After header, the HttpClient can handle such cases with a handler:
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Retriable URLSession#dataTask
I am extending URLSession.dataTask to also allow retries, if the request fails.
I am particularly interested in the reliability of the code. Speed and efficiency ...
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PHP readfile() with 304 Not Modified and HTTP 206 Partial Content support: httpreadfile
I wanted a readfile with 304 Not Modified and 206 Partial Content support, I think i got right, but probably spent way more effort on error-checking than worthwhile.. Also I didn't develop it by ...
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Object to make GET, POST, PUT and DELETE requests
I am trying to build an object that group all methods to make http GET, POST, PUT, DELETE requests with fetch API. I would like to accept objects and formData without having to specify the content ...
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Does this HTTP library API make sense for handling small in-memory message bodies as well as large stream-based messages?
I'm writing a HTTP server and client in C++20. It started with a simple API, string call(string url) which worked great for another project. The API uses implicit ...
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Python script that pulls in and display a random xkcd comic
This script is supposed to download query xkcd json interface, find the total number of comics till date, pick a random number in that range, use the xkcd json interface again to find the comic image ...
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Python script for Web scraping
I wrote a Python script for Web scraping of a Website. Please review my code and suggest me any changes or make me aware of my blunders/mistakes?.
I wrote the almost same script for other websites ...
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Having trouble deleting multiple queries (PHP, MYSQL)
I'm having trouble making WHERE IN query work, I was only able to make it work as a foreach loop.
My payload looks like this:
sku[]: BOOK0002
sku[]: BOOK0003
My ...
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Better ways to parse the Content-Length from the HTTP header
I have a buffer that contains the HTTP header, which contains the Content-Length string indicating how big the file is that needs to be downloaded.
I am looking to ...
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Multi-threaded web server serving HTML, images, etc
I have a web server that can send websites, images, mp3 and other things and I was wondering how I could improve the code and make the server more efficient.
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Simple server to host simple website page with css
I have created a simple server that host html that has css. Please make sure if ur testing then change the paths relative to ur system in listhell.c in respond_main(..) function.
The html file has to ...
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Spring boot: better way to handle response and exceptions
I am working on a quite a big Spring Boot web service and I wanted a standardized and simplified way to handle responses and exceptions by following fluent API design.
So this is what I did and it ...
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Python 3 Multi-connection downloader
I have written a fully functional simple command line multi-connection downloader, written in Python 3, using just threading, ...
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Node.js Dumbserver
Dumbserver, or the simplest workable HTTP server. It is supposed to operate in the 'traditional' way, that is, mapping paths in requests to the directory structure.
Why did I write it: I needed a ...
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Simple RESTful counting API in Golang
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This is a simple (and hopefully) RESTful API in Golang that uses Redis. I have next to no prior experience in Golang and absolutely no prior experience with Redis. The API is a simple ...
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Go Web API for Sending Emails via Contact Form
I've been playing around with Go and finally found a use case for a little web service I could build.
It takes JSON data via an HTTP POST request and sends me an email via Mailgun's API (it's used for ...
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Getting metadata from MusicBrainz service
I've written a program which does the following things:
calls third-party utility to get mp3 file fingerprint
asks MusicBrainz IDs from AcoustID service
asks metadata from MusicBrainz for each ID
I'...
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Command line utility for user data migration from MUBI.com to letterboxd.com
Please make code review for command line utility for user data migration from MUBI.com to letterboxd.com.
Utility makes Get HTTP request downloads json-data, parses it and saves as CSV-file.
Can be ...
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C# Asp.net core middleware for redirecting URLs
I wrote a small middleware for redirecting between WWW URLs.
The most important thing that I want to change is to make it super fast.
Here's what it is doing:
If the host is localhost or mywebsite.com ...
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Modify original JSON few times and post http request
Follow up question from here.
I am working on a project where I need to do below things in Python:
Take few input parameters like - environmentName, ...
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Simple http helper in Go
Can you please share your thoughts on the following simple httphelper in Go? Thanks in advance.
I mainly would like to know whether returning a channel of a custom type seems like a good idea and if ...
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Post json using http and verify whether all actions completed successfully or not
I am working on a project where I need to work with http apis and call them using Python language. Below is what I need to do:
Take few input parameters like - <...
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HTTP Client Skeleton [closed]
I've made a simple winhttp client in C++ and here is kind've the skeleton of the header file. I was thinking of initializing the session once and then using it throughout the rest of my http client ...
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URL parser in C
Title should be self-explenatory. This is a simple URL parser I wrote in C. The function takes a URL from the user and produces a struct that contains the information that can be used to request the ...
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Serving a webpage that displays the HTTP request information sent by the client
In order to learn web server programming in Node and JavaScript, I decided to implement a simple web server that only does one thing:
Display data of the HTTP request as an HTML table.
The actual ...
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Minimal, very simple, implementation of an HTTP server for static content, using only core node.js modules
To practice the very basics of node back-end, I'm implementing the most basic server possible for static content, using only the core node modules:
http
fs
path
With the following server ...
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Get all data from an external and paginated Swagger API using Java / Feign / Spring
I have written the following method that allows me to import from another API all the items stored there using Feign.
The only issue is that the external API provides a size limit of 2000 and ...
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Parsing HTTP request for webserver implementation
I'm writing a web server from scratch on pure Java in learning purpose. As a part of request handling, I worked on a class to parse HTTP request, I expect from it to be able to do next things:
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Part 2: Create or update record via HTTP request
This script was previously reviewed here: Part 1: Create or update record via HTTP request
I've made the changes that were suggested by @Reinderien.
Now that the code has been significantly refactored,...
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Part 1: Create or update record via HTTP request
Update:
This is an older version of the question/script. The new version can be found here: Part 2: Create or update record via HTTP request
I have an external system that sends an HTTP request to a ...
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Part 2: Send HTTP request for each row in Excel table
This script was previously reviewed here: Send HTTP request for each row in Excel table (Part 1)
I've made the changes that were suggested in the Code Review answers as well as added a few of my own.
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Part 1: Send HTTP request for each row in Excel table
Update:
This is an older version of the question/script. The new version can be found here: Part 2: Send HTTP request for each row in Excel table
I have an Excel spreadsheet where users can batch-...
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Deserialise Json and Read Stream twice in C#
So this is a modern implementation of a HTTP client, trying to find a way to optimise/simplify this.
Specifically the DeserializeAsync method with the GetStream and the compiler statement for if/debug ...
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Promise-based HTTP abstraction layer
I am currently working in a project based on a microservices architecture pattern.
Services are wired up by HTTP calls. They eventually call each others for fetching or putting some data.
I am ...
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Proxy server performance improvements?
fairly new to playing around with proxy servers. Wrote a really simple one with Express to help keep some API keys secret so that my front-end app can query the GitHub API. Definitely feels a bit ...
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Quickly throwing together a text-and-button-based client-server web game
With much of the world in lockdown at the moment, my friends and I wanted a way to play our favourite game, Celebrity, over video chat.
This seemed like a fun coding project, so I put together a ...
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OOP Web-scraper w/ Python and BeautifulSoup
This is my first major web scraping program in python. My code works nonetheless, I'm just not sure if it's the best OOP design. My code is below:
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Python code for checking request headers [closed]
I am trying to validate a HTTP REST API request in my python code. It checks for some request headers (X-Foo and X-Bar) and two ...
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Handle HTTP and BLE requests
Im implementing and designing a workflow that performs both HTTP and BLE requests.
Im having trouble figuring out the best approach to design a service to handle both types of requests, and manage ...
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http router written in Golang
in my jurney to learn Go, I decided to write a simple router which I called it Gouter, which I think it has most of the features in gorilla/mux but in my opinion it's easier to use. Anyway, it ...
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Short wrapper for fetch (similar to axios)
I was looking to replace my use of axios with just fetch, but I didn't like how verbose fetch was with regard to handling JSON output (having to have a separate then...
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HTTP download function in Rust (async/await)
Why am I fighting the compiler? - Wrote this, which works, but I feel like I'm breaking every rule in the book:
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Episode 1: Mastering code and Testing it [closed]
Once upon a time there was a noob developer who learned it all by himself because he grew up in a nation far behind in IT.
I've tried to learn C# for about 5 years, without any improvement over the ...
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HTTP Client - Best practices
I've made a HTTP client and would like some tips to improve my code, it's supposed to be built for xamarin forms but should work with any implementation.
My goal of this project was to learn more ...
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C# REST / Http Client Abstraction
I have a REST library. These are the abstractions. Have I missed anything that a developer would need to use this in a dependency injection / IoC Container scenario? Anything that bothers you about ...
