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How do I configure nginx to accept gzip requests?

I know that you can use nginx HttpGzipModule to gzip responses. Can you als use it to enable nginx to handle gzip-compressed requests, i.e. ones with the request header: Content-Encoding: gzip ? Note: Apache, with the help of mod_deflate can handle…
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My DNS record can only point to an IP address. How do I make it reach for a port?

I am fairly new to network administration and therefore am already excited to have successfully set up a DNS record. Now I am a bit confused, because I would like to have this URL: http://www.example.org:8080/fetch/characters/ be actually reached…
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What are these weird access requests?

I using WAMPServer on my computer for testing and development. I forgot and left it online for a few days and I notice a bunch of random requests that aren't even from my IP. Here are some examples. 77.73.69.127 - - [29/Apr/2012:08:22:20 -0700]…
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Need to DUPLICATE HTTP requests to two servers

We're developing an new server to replace an old one, and want to put the side by side for before & after tests - so that we can compare the end result and find the discrepancies. The input to both services (old and new) is HTTP requests (mostly if…
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Separate Nginx access log file for certain requests only

As far as I can see Nginx supports by default 2 log files: error_log (tracks issues related to the Nginx server itself) and access_log (tracks requests processed by Nginx). Whilst it is possible to control the format of access_log with the…
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Why is PHP $_REQUEST array empty?

I installed nginx on Ubuntu Hardy and immediately realized that the PHP scripts were getting empty request arrays, ie whether GET or POST nothing was coming through, even the $_REQUEST array was empty. When I switch back to Apache it was all…
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How to dynamically set HTTP Header in Apache 2.2?

Seems like this should be easy, but I cannot figure out the syntax. In Apache, I want to use the value of an existing request header to set a new request header. Some simple non-working code that illustrates what I'd like to do: RequestHeader set…
Michael
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Chrome DevTools - Request Header Size

Is there a way to get the total size (in bytes) of the request header that the browser is sending to the server for each request?
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Getting a chunked request through nginx

First some background: We have an embedded device that uploads a lot of small events to a web server. Chunked encoding is used to post this information. Every event is send as a seperate chunk, so the webserver (node.js) can react immediately to the…
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What's wrong with this HTTP POST request?

I'm trying to fuzz a server using the Sulley fuzzing framework. I observe the following stream in Wireshark. The error talks about a problem with JSON parsing, however, when I try the same HTTP POST request using Google Chrome's Postman extension,…
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Requests in IIS' "SendResponse" state stuck for a long time; Slow IIS 7.5/ASP.NET 4.0 web application

I have a set of very beefy, very underutilized servers which are running a couple virtual machines with Windows Server 2008 R2 and IIS 7.5. The problem: Sometimes requests take a very long time to be processed. The user sees their browser spinning,…
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nginx redirect based on $request_uri

In my default site config file, I have the following redirect to enforce https : server { listen 80; server_name www.example.com example.com; return 301 https://example.com$request_uri; } I want to add a subdomain, but to…
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Parse HTTP requests through Wireshark?

Is there any way to parse HTTP request data in wireshark? For example, can I expose the request parameters upon an HTTP GET request (being sent by my machine), so that I don't need to read the (sometimes) truncated URL and find them by myself? I was…
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HAProxy - Add response header based on request host

I have a HAProxy set up to redirect traffic to a few internal servers. What I'm trying to do is to set some response headers, based on the request host. Unfortunately I can't get it to work. Current settings look like this acl mywebsite…
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List all available templates from CA certutil or certreq

I need to request a certificate via command line I have investigated that certreq is the tool that can request the certificate. I am used to the gui to request the certificate by selecting one of the available templates, but I need to do the same…
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