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1. feed reader best practices | Rachel By The Bay 2024-10-26

   tags: feed, network/http, network/http/header, personal-knowledge/blog, storage/cache, web/syndication

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   Test feed:

   • feed reader score project
   • A sysadmin's rant about feed readers and crawlers
   • Feeds, updates, 200s, 304s, and now 429s
   • So many feed readers, so many bizarre behaviors
   • The feed reader score service is now online

   RFCs:

   • RFC 1945 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.0 - If-Modified-Since
   • RFC 7232 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Conditional Requests - Entity Tag (ETag)
   • RFC 9110 - HTTP Semantics

   Related:

   • Bret Simmons - NetNewsWire and Conditional GET Issues
   • John Brayton - Feed Polling for Unread Cloud
   • Jeff Kaufman - Looking at RSS User-Agents
   • Chris Siebenmann - The case of the very old If-Modified-Since HTTP header
   • ETag and HTTP caching
   • HTTP Conditional Requests Explained
   • Caching - What takes precedence: the ETag or Last-Modified HTTP header?
2. hashicorp/copywrite - Automate copyright headers and license files at scale 2024-01-14

   tags: license, open-source, programming/go, source-code-management/git

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3. HAProxy - TLS Termination Setup 2023-07-24

   tags: cryptography/encryption, network/http, network/http-server/haproxy, network/reverse-proxy, network/transport-layer-security, security

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   • Traffic Routing - Rewrite Requests
   • Client IP Preservation - X-Forwarded-For
   • HAProxy & HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
   • Secure Cookies Using HAProxy Enterprise
4. Chris's Wiki :: blog/spam/AutorepliesWhatNot - What email messages to not send autoreplies to 2019-03-07

   tags: email, email/spam, header

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   • https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3834
   • https://superuser.com/questions/481645/will-outlook-out-of-office-reply-go-to-mailing-lists
5. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) | MDN 2019-01-23

   tags: domain, network/dns, network/http, security, server

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   • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Access-Control-Allow-Credentials
   • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Access-Control-Allow-Headers
   • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Access-Control-Allow-Methods
   • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Access-Control-Allow-Origin
6. Heffalump - is an endless honeypot 2019-01-07

   tags: header, network/http, programming/go, security, server, stream

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   • https://play.golang.org/p/0i67F3iZ8fY
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowloris_(computer_security)
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/ad2bxn/rob_pike_has_done_it_again/
7. Catch2: A modern, C++-native, header-only, test framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD - using C++11, C++14, C++17 and later (or C++03 on the Catch1.x branch) 2018-12-20

   tags: framework, header, programming/c, programming/c++, programming/testing

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   • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/87794/c-unit-testing-framework
   • https://levelofindirection.com/blog/catch-1-0.html
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/4e9afx/most_popular_c_unit_testing_frameworks/
   • https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/tree/master/tests
8. GNU Terry Pratchett 2018-10-16

   tags: discworld, fantasy, gnu, header, literature, nerd, network/http, science-fiction

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   • http://discworld.wikia.com/wiki/Clacks
   • http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/genclacks.php
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/2yt9j6/gnu_terry_pratchett/
   • https://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2015/mar/17/terry-pratchetts-name-lives-on-in-the-clacks-with-hidden-web-code
9. http - X-Cache Header Explanation - Stack Overflow 2018-08-31

   tags: header, memory/cache, network/http, performance, storage/cache

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   • https://anothersysadmin.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/x-cache-and-x-cache-lookup-headers-explained/
   • https://www.keycdn.com/blog/http-cache-headers/
   • https://web.archive.org/web/20101227032821/http://www.http-stats.com/X-Cache
   • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Caching
   • https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec13.html
10. Literate DevOps 2016-03-29

    tags: babel, development, devops, documentation, editor/emacs, literate, mode, org, sysadmin

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    """ Instead of opening up a terminal to my virtual machine, I pop into Emacs and load this sprint’s /note file/1, create a new header, and enter the shell and ruby commands in this text file.

    What good is this? Unlike a traditional terminal, this allows me to log, document and execute each command.

    As an old bear with very little brains, my prose can explain the background and purpose of each command. Clicking the hyperlink refreshes my memory of previous discoveries. A keychord executes the code block… """