http-headers

Send Post request along with HttpHeaders on Android

You can execute the HttpPost manually like this: HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(); HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(“http://www.yoursite.com/postreceiver”); // generating your data (AKA parameters) List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(); nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair(“ParameterName”, “ParameterValue”)); // … // adding your headers httppost.setHeader(“HeaderName”, “HeaderValue”); // … // adding your data httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs)); HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost); Get the response … Read more

Cross-Domain AJAX doesn’t send X-Requested-With header

If you are using jQuery to do your ajax request, it will not send the header X-Requested-With (HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH) = XMLHttpRequest, because it is cross domain. But there are 2 ways to fix this and send the header: Option 1) Manually set the header in the ajax call: $.ajax({ url: “http://your-url…”, headers: {‘X-Requested-With’: ‘XMLHttpRequest’} }); Option … Read more

HTTP post XML data in C#

In General: An example of an easy way to post XML data and get the response (as a string) would be the following function: public string postXMLData(string destinationUrl, string requestXml) { HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(destinationUrl); byte[] bytes; bytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(requestXml); request.ContentType = “text/xml; encoding=’utf-8′”; request.ContentLength = bytes.Length; request.Method = “POST”; Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream(); requestStream.Write(bytes, … Read more

HTTP Range header

As Wrikken suggested, it’s a valid request. It’s also quite common when the client is requesting media or resuming a download. A client will often test to see if the server handles ranged requests other than just looking for an Accept-Ranges response. Chrome always sends a Range: bytes=0- with its first GET request for a … Read more