Wandering Thoughts archives

2023-09-21:	HTTP Basic Authentication and your URL hierarchy
2023-09-16:	Apache's HTTP Basic Authentication could do with more logging
2023-08-29:	Experiencing the increase in web bandwidth usage for myself
2023-08-10:	Browsers barely care what HTTP status code your web pages are served with
2023-08-01:	Turning off the sidebar of Firefox's built in PDF viewer
2023-07-15:	Static websites have a low barrier to entry
2023-07-14:	The theory versus the practice of "static websites"
2023-07-08:	The HTTP status code for a web server's default "hello" front page
2023-07-05:	The mere 'presence' of an URL on a web server is not a good signal
2023-07-04:	Web servers should refuse requests for random, unnecessary URLs
2023-07-01:	Cool URLs keep their contents (an obvious point that still matters)
2023-06-30:	In practice, cool URLs can become inaccessible even if they don't change
2023-06-17:	Javascript modifying cut and paste can sometimes be a good thing in browsers
2023-06-16:	CGIs combine well with Apache location-based access control
2023-05-19:	The long life of Apache httpd 2.4
2023-05-12:	The modern browser experience has some impressive subtle tricks
2023-04-26:	Putting the 'User-Agent' in your web crawler's User-Agent
2023-04-05:	Giving Firefox the tiniest URL bar bookmark 'star' button possible
2023-04-04:	How to get a bigger font for Firefox's preview of link targets (sort of)
2023-04-01:	Avoiding HTTP/3 (for a while) as a pragmatic default
2023-03-25:	Apache 2.4's event MPM can require more workers than you'd expect
2023-03-15:	The extra hazards of mutual TLS authentication (mTLS) in web servers
2023-02-23:	The web single sign on versus availability problem
2023-02-19:	Using web server reverse proxying to deal with file access permissions
2023-01-25:	You should back up the settings for your Firefox addons periodically
2023-01-21:	How Prometheus makes good use of the HTTP Accept: header
2023-01-17:	An aggressive, stealthy web spider operating from Microsoft IP space
2023-01-12:	A browser tweak for system administrators doing (web) network debugging

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