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 ...

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Google has announced plans to deprecate Chrome support for HTTP public key pinning (HPKP), an IETF standard that Google engineers wrote to improve web security but now consider harmful. HPKP, as ...

In order to prevent attacks such as cache probing, Google Chrome will begin to limit the HTTP Referer header to 4KiB in size. Other browsers such as Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox have indicated ...

When accessing a website, the web browser receives security headers from the server, such as HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which requires communication over HTTPS, and Content Security Policy ...

As part of putting together a request to a Web Service, I'm perfectly willing to modify the headers in the request to carry some data rather than put that data in the body of the request. There is a ...

In the client-server architecture of the World Wide Web, the interaction between browsers and websites is handled through the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). This protocol was introduced in 1991 ...