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Does HTTP response "200 OK" give a guarantee that the document has been received by the machine who generated the HTTP request?
I have two machines, A and B. A sends an HTTP request to B and asks for some document. B responds back and sends the requested document and gives a 200 OK message, but machine A is complaining that ...
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Is HTTPS Stateful or Stateless? [closed]
I want a bit of clarity on whether HTTPS is stateful or stateless? This is with regards to a RESTful API I built. We were initially using HTTP. Since HTTP essentially works over TCP/IP which is ...
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Is HTTP/2 a stateless protocol?
From my understanding, HTTP/2 comes with a stateful header compression called HPACK. Doesn't it change the stateless semantics of the HTTP protocol? Is it safe for web applications to consider HTTP/2 ...
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3 answers
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Can HTTP/HTTPS use UDP?
UDP is unreliable. No guarantee of message delivery No acknowledgments, retransmissions, or timeouts No guarantee of order of delivery No packet sequence numbers, no reordering, no head-of-line ...
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1 answer
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Sending and Receiving with UDP
I am trying to implement data transfer between a back-end server and the android device which is a request from device to server for information and the server responds(UDP use because it is faster ...
1 vote
1 answer
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Java and UDP web server
I thinking of building a mini-server where Java can send data through UDP protocol so that my other Flex application can read. The data consist of short string of up to 64 characters. Should I ...
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1 answer
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HTTP communication on port other than 80? [closed]
In the book Computer Networking: A top down approach second edition by Kurose, in chapter 2 under Building a Web Server (2.8), Author creates a server listening on the port 6789 for HTTP responses. ...
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1 answer
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Accepting UDP in the Browser
After curiously googling about potentially accepting UDP packets in web clients (JavaScript), I was surprised to come up with almost nothing except some articles about Google's experimental QUIC ...
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1 answer
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UDP transport underneath GPRC for C# unity gaming application
I am planning to use GRPC with C# and unity for gaming application. Is it possible to use UDP transport underneath GRPC? Also, is it possible to use Cronet transport underneath GRPC?
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How TCP connection handle client's total payload size
I have an HTTP server listening on a specific TCP port written in Golang. I have a logic that the server will reject the client request if the client payload is larger than a certain size. Now I'm ...