Guide To Http
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Don’t use Access-Control-Allow-Origin
Proxying Apache Bench through Fiddler
Don’t use Access-Control-Allow-Origin
Access-Control-Allow-Origin is an HTTP header that allows servers to specify which hosts may send cross domain AJAX requests. Let’s say you were building an ad network, fetching content via AJAX. You would add this header to HTTP responses, once for each allowed domain. Clearly this is not scalable, but it’s a bad idea for other reasons [...] Read More...
Proxying Apache Bench through Fiddler
The directions as follows work for a local VM environment (VirtualBox/Vagrant), on a Windows host. Apache Bench is installed from XAMPP. If pointing ab directly at the VM, use the machine IP address (127.0.0.1 is fine). If proxying through Fiddler, it must use localhost, or the requests do not display in Fiddler. You must also [...] Read More...
