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Inside HTTP Headers

expertsrt.com — What is in the headers? What can you do with header data? What is all that stuff for? This tut answers those questions and more with an easy to follow explanation.

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  • BladeMelbourne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Useful extension: http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/
  • woodcoxcb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I digg this story... Headers are insanely powerful things if you use them properly. The main use I've found for them is the Cache-Control and the Content-Type headers, but I don't see them mentioned much in the article...
  • jdkane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One of the simpler explanations of basic HTTP is here -- http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/http/
  • version01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Funny how most sites that have missing content never send 404s...
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