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How does HTTPS packet chunking work?

I am trying to bypass my ISP DPI. I found a program called PowerTunnel hosted in GitHub that can do the trick. When I was surfing on the GUI, I found packet chunking. I want to know, how does it work, ...
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How to trick my network into believing it sent a GET request to an URL while it is localhost?

Let's assume I send a GET request for the URL: https://www.example.com/ Is it possible to trick my network into thinking that it received a reply from said URL while it's actually coming from ...
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Unable to access my server with my domain name in http with a browser

I installed nginx on my server and want to access it with a browser using my domain name. Basically i can do that using my server IP http://41.111.142.74/ Now trying to do that with my domain name ...
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How does a client know what data it is expecting in an HTTP response payload?

I am simulating a peer-to-peer network which uses HTTP as an application protocol and I have some uncertainty regarding how a client knows what an HTTP response will consist of. Let's assume that a ...
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HTTPS traffic 40x slower than HTTP in Windows 10 x64

Followup from this problem https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45768893/git-clone-in-windows-much-slower-than-in-linux/45893258#45893258 Windows 10 HTTPS traffic is capped about 200-240kb/s. HTTP ...
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Troubleshooting proxy issues

My IT is very unreliable in providing me support. My company has provided 2 proxies for reaching the internet. Let's call them proxy A & B. Proxy A supports HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS. Proxy B ...
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Can only access HTTPS secure sites at a router level

I've got an ASUS router running DD-WRT v24-sp2 (03/25/13) giga. Sometime in the last week I have not been able to access remote sites through standard HTTP (port 80). HTTPS on port 443 works without ...
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How can I observe all network traffic to and from a certain domain in OSX?

I'd like to observe requests from my machine to certain domains and optionally insert my own canned responses instead of the ones they provide. eg: any GET request to api.googlemaps.com I intercept ...
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Why are HTTPS connections not slow anymore?

When the web was young, HTTP connections were relatively fast, and HTTPS connections were painfully slow. In the last several years, the speed of HTTPS connections are often very similar to that of ...
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HTTPS works, but HTTP does not work (err_connection_refused error)

I have this weird problem in my laptops internet connection. I use this laptop for my day to day work + company work. With my company internet connection there are no issues, internet works fine (goes ...
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