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Chrome 68 "Not secure" How to make it in red color?
Yes, we do have that option
Result
The result being all non-HTTPS pages in red color:
Setting it up
Access internal settings:
chrome://flags/
Look for:
Mark non-secure origins as non-secure
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Are there well known HTTP-only sites?
A well-known public HTTP only site will resolve this
You can use http://neverssl.com:
What?
This website is for when you try to open Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc
on a wifi network, and ...
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Getting curl to output HTTP status code?
Status code ONLY
[0]$ curl -LI http://www.example.org -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' -s
[0]$ 200
All credit to this GIST
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Why does my browser attempt to download pages from http://clhs.lisp.se instead of viewing them normally?
There is something wrong with the way that website and/or web sever is delivering web pages.
This is not a problem on your end but rather something odd on the server side; with either the website ...
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How do I make a POST request using curl?
If you are lazy, you can get google-chrome or firefox to do all the work for you.
Right-click the form you want to submit and select Inspect (or Inspect Element for Firefox). This will open the ...
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Are HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and NO_PROXY environment variables standard?
I agree with BillThor's statement that This is more a convention than a standard.
I don't know the origin of these variables but in case of HTTP on *nix many conventions seem to originate from ...
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What is the difference between Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod?
You can find out by decompiling the Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility assembly.
Basically, Invoke-WebRequest does not deal with parsing the data all that much. With -UseBasicParsing, it does some ...
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Can you go to a website by typing the IP address into the address bar?
TL;DR It depends on the server's configuration. A quick positive example is one.one.one.one / 1.1.1.1.
I'm assuming you're following the usual lecture on your Computer Networking course about how ...
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What protocol is used for downloading files?
Say I download an executable like Pycharm from Jetbrains.com. HTTP was used to deliver contents of the website - is this also used when I download the file? I read that FTP was used but also saw it's ...
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curl http_code of 000
The response 000 indicates that cURL failed to execute for some reason. In such a case, you should test for cURL exit code rather than making assumptions. See the "Exit Codes" section of the curl ...
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How to track url redirects in the browser?
Now, when FireBug is integrated into developer tools you may enable persistent logs by next steps:
Open DevTools (F12)
Go into Toolbox options (forth icon from right top)
Find Common preferences ...
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How does browser know which version of HTTP it should use when sending a request?
HTTP/1.x
Both HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/1.0 use compatible request formats. After the first request, the server's response will indicate the version it supports, plus headers such as "Connection: keep-...
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Are HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and NO_PROXY environment variables standard?
There is no real standard.
Different tools interpret these variables similarly but subtly differently. For example the case of the recognised environment variables and the case-precedence varies ...
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Can you go to a website by typing the IP address into the address bar?
The IP stack isn't really 'aware' or 'care' about the IP. All DNS does is tell you "this domain name is at this IP".
In the 'simplest' sense there's no difference between either scenario - ...
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Can you go to a website by typing the IP address into the address bar?
Call me crazy but none of the current answers contains the word "header", which is the most important part for a web server like Apache, Nginx etc. to resolve the correct site. The host ...
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Why I use chrome request a site URL do not see Host header?
All HTTP/1.1 request messages must contain a Host header field.
Yes, but what you have is not actually an HTTP/1.1 request.
You're looking at HTTP/2, where the :authority pseudo-header serves the ...
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How to send an HTTP request for a certain domain name to a specific IP address?
You can use CURL to initiate a request to the server with a custom host header.
curl --header "Host:abc.com" xxxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx
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How does the protocol "mongodb" work?
To manually interact with it you need a client to speak the protocol. This is what a web browser does, it speaks http/https for you and issues commands (GET, POST etc.) and renders the responses for ...
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Convert HTTP requests to SOCKS5
HTTP Proxy to Socks5
Install python-proxy
$ pip3 install pproxy
$ pproxy -r socks5://127.0.0.1:9150 -vv
Usage
http://127.0.0.1:8080
https://127.0.0.1:8080
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Storing a HTTP POST request in a bookmark or something similar as you would with a GET request
You can create a bookmarklet that uses JavaScript to send a POST request when clicked.
The following code sends a POST request with payload foo=bar to https://example.com by appending a form to the ...
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How can I run ALL HTTP requests through Charles Web Debugging Proxy - including command line ones?
If you dont want to touch your configuration files, using curl you can do :
curl http://example.com --proxy 127.0.0.1:8888
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What is the difference between Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod?
systemcenterautomation.com did a blog post about this. The conclusion:
Invoke-RestMethod is much better at dealing with XML and JSON results,
while Invoke-WebRequest is better at dealing with ...
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How do I log out with HTTP Basic?
For chrome browser you can restart the chrome application completely by typing in the address bar.
chrome://restart
Another way is that, always open the browser in incognito mode. For chrome the ...
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Are there well known HTTP-only sites?
These answers came from the comments and I believe they need a separate entry in the answers so they can be easily found.
http://google.com/generate_204
(from @GiantTree)
http://captive.apple.com/
(...
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How Do I Do The Equivalent of "apachectl configtest" With Apache For Windows?
What is the equivalent of apachectl configtest on Apache for Windows?
According to the current Apache 2.4 documentation for apachectl, configtest is equivalent to httpd -t. For reference, httpd -t ...
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How can I use a VPN to access a Russian website that is banned in the EU?
I installed the package openresolv that is available for Debian (the ArchWiki has more information about DNS).
The second thing I did was to insert the following three lines into the ovpn-file before ...
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Getting curl to output HTTP status code?
An example of how to use the response codes. I use this to re-download Geolite databases only if they have changed (-z) & also following redirects (-L):
url=http://example.com/file.gz
file=$(...
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Using Telnet in Windows 10?
If you are going to utilize telnet, you don't need to type the www with the host name. Using telnet google.com 80 should suffice.
To be honest, if you are on a Windows 10 machine it would probably ...
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