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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. 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
3. 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
4. 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/
5. 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
6. 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