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php - redirect adding HTTP to end of the url - Stack Overflow
Main Post: php - redirect adding HTTP to end of the url - Stack Overflow
Links are modified from "https://..." to ''--fast-start%20--single-argument%20https//...' when they appear in the Edge search bar
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We have one computer that after Microsoft updates will not allow the user to open links to sites that are https. This is happening both in links from Outlook emails and links to https sites to access from Norton.
We get the following error message and have tried clearing the browser history running the Windows Network Diagnostics, etc. but cannot seem to figure out why this is still happening.
Hmmm... can't reach this page
Check if there is a typo in --fast-start%20--single-argument%20https.
- If spelling is correct, try running Windows Network Diagnostics.
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
All of our other computers have completed the same updates and are not experiencing this same issue.
Top Comment: I noticed that there may be an error in the link of the error message you provided, and theoretically a fully available link should not end in https, this may be caused by the unexpected convergence of two consecutive links. So I suggest you confirm the correctness of the link.
What causes "http:// https://" links to be made? - Meta Stack Exchange
Main Post: What causes "http:// https://" links to be made? - Meta Stack Exchange
Reddit - The heart of the internet
Main Post: Reddit - The heart of the internet
I am struggling to understand how exactly HTTP works
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So, do web browsers send http requests to port 80 of the web server you connect to by default?
For example, when I type google.com, does the browser by default change that to http://google.com:80?
Also, what happens if the web server uses IPv4? Should the host configure the router so that HTTP requests sent to port 80 of the router get forwarded to the the web server's port 80 (or another port if they host it in another port)?
After an HTTP request is sent to port 80 what happens? Does the web server use a programming language like NodeJS to listen to that port and send an HTTP respond to the user?
Also, what does it mean when we say that port 80 uses HTTP? Does that mean an HTTP server listens to that port? But where is that HTTP server? How do you configure it? Wouldn't we need to use a programming language like NodeJS to create an HTTP server? Else how could we code how the responds should be given?
After a respond is sent back, where is it sent? I am not sure but I think the browser uses a random port where the respond should be sent, and then after it recieves the HTTP respond the browser can read it?
As you can see I am a little confused, because I have not been able to yet find a clear description of what exactly happens when a web browser communicates with a web server. It would be really nice if you guys could help me clear this confusion.
Top Comment: An http URL with no explicit port uses port 80 by default (httpS uses port 443) The web browser (or the underlying OS) does a DNS lookup to get the IP addresses for the hostname specified. If will use either IPv4 or IPv6 depending on which types of addresses the machine running the browser has, as well as which type of addresses are in the DNS for the host. Yes, an HTTP server needs to be written in some language, but it can be any programming language that is able to create and manage TCP IP network sockets. Python, Perl, C, etc. The response from the web server does not create a new connection, it responds on the same connection that the client made.
Why use http if https exists?
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I am just wondering what are the downsides of using HTTPS vs HTTP. For instance, why would someone use HTTP in a network protocol vs HTTPS? From my understanding, HTTPS is just a secure version of HTTP, so why would anyone want to use HTTP?
Top Comment: Back in the day, the main reasons were probably cost of certificates and load on web servers. Today though, you can get certificates for free and relatively cheap cloud hosting. Most websites you visit nowadays have https. No real reason to use just http anymore.
Http vs https?
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Ik http aint secure . But will my IPS be abel to see what im doing while using https ??
Top Comment: The domain name (e.g. reddit.com) of the website will still be readable, but everything else, such as the rest of the URL (e.g. / r/privacy ), the content of the webpage, and whatever you submit in forms, will not. So your ISP will still know that yesterday at 12:00 you visited Reddit but they won't know what you did there.
ELI5: What is HTTP?
Main Post: ELI5: What is HTTP?
Top Comment: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol its being used to serve your website and most hosting companies use this
HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web
Main Post: HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web
Top Comment: HTTP will be obsolete when something replaces it and not before.
How unsafe is visiting a http website?
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So I was viewing reddit and stumbled upon a link leading to another reddit page so I scanned it with virustotal (clear) and clicked on it. It did bring me to a reddit page but I noticed it was http. The weird thing is that the page also had a https version. So now I am confused on whether it was safe I entered a http website and also why there are two identical pages but one with http and another https.
Top Comment: It may be 'safe' but absent HTTPS, you can't be 100% sure of the site's ownership and your traffic is unencrypted.
In your opinion should you learn HTTP/other things in-depth to help understand JavaScript/programming?
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Posted this in webdev, but haven't gotten a response yet. I thought maybe I could get one here since JavaScript is one of the programming languages I want to learn.
One of the additional resources in The Odin Project is an online book of a short introductory on HTTP. Would you recommend going in-depth on this and related stuff, especially for a beginner in web development such as myself? Considering JS has me lost so far, do you think this could help clarify some things in JS/general web development?
This is the book: https://launchschool.com/books/http
Would learning a lot about this be like learning how to use a computer/the internet for the first time, as in, would these basics/intermediate knowledge help me understand things a lot more clearly in web development/programming?
Do you have any recommendations (YouTube video courses for example)?
Top Comment: So knowing HTTP protocol working definitely helps when you start doing connections and data transfer using stuff like Fetch API or libraries like Axios and NodeJs. Fetch API for example , only throws async catch errors if the network connectivity was broken and not if the server threw a 500 error. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/Using_Fetch The Promise returned from fetch() won't reject on HTTP error status even if the response is an HTTP 404 or 500. Instead, as soon as the server responds with headers, the Promise will resolve normally (with the ok property of the response set to false if the response isn't in the range 200–299), and it will only reject on network failure or if anything prevented the request from completing. So you need to be able to code in the error handling or conditional code execution knowing how to check and use the HTTP response codes for example