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Encrypt IDs in URL variables

oh ok, so for sensitive information best to use sessions then, are table Ids etc safe to throw in the GET var? Yes, sensitive information must not leave your server in the first place. Use sessions. As for “are table ids safe in the URL”: I don’t know, is there anything bad a user could … Read more

How to make external HTTP requests with Node.js [closed]

NodeJS supports http.request as a standard module: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.11/api/http.html#http.request var http = require(‘http’); var options = { host: ‘example.com’, port: 80, path: ‘/foo.html’ }; http.get(options, function(resp){ resp.on(‘data’, function(chunk){ //do something with chunk }); }).on(“error”, function(e){ console.log(“Got error: ” + e.message); });

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

What should a Multipart HTTP request with multiple files look like? [duplicate]

Well, note that the request contains binary data, so I’m not posting the request as such – instead, I’ve converted every non-printable-ascii character into a dot (“.”). POST /cgi-bin/qtest HTTP/1.1 Host: aram User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Referer: http://aram/~martind/banner.htm Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=2a8ae6ad-f4ad-4d9a-a92c-6d217011fe0f Content-Length: 514 … Read more

Sample http range request session

The following exchange is between Chrome and a static web server, retrieving an MP4 video. Initial request – for the video. Note the Accept-Ranges response header to indicate the server has range header support: GET /BigBuckBunny_320x180.mp4 Cache-Control: max-age=0 Connection: keep-alive Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US,en Host: localhost:8080 Range: Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml,*/* User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.7 … Accept-Encoding: … Read more

Angular2 http.get() ,map(), subscribe() and observable pattern – basic understanding

Here is where you went wrong: this.result = http.get(‘friends.json’) .map(response => response.json()) .subscribe(result => this.result =result.json()); it should be: http.get(‘friends.json’) .map(response => response.json()) .subscribe(result => this.result =result); or http.get(‘friends.json’) .subscribe(result => this.result =result.json()); You have made two mistakes: 1- You assigned the observable itself to this.result. When you actually wanted to assign the list of … Read more