Hacker News with Generative AI: HTTP

Show HN: A Fast HTTP Request CLI Powered by HTTL (httl.dev)
Starting from version 0.1.7, HTTL provides a command-line interface (CLI) that allows you to run HTTL queries from the terminal.

HTTP, Tools

40 points by emykhailenko 2 days ago | 11 comments

Systemd Adding Ability to Boot Directly into a Disk Image Downloaded via HTTP (phoronix.com)
Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has been working on adding the ability to let systemd boot directly into a disk image downloaded via HTTP within the initial RAM disk (initrd) during the Linux boot process.

Operating Systems, Linux, Systemd, Boot Process, HTTP

5 points by transpute 8 days ago | 1 comments

The Lengthiest HTTP Headers (fastly.com)
Large web page bodies make your page load slowly, but what about large headers?

Web Development, Performance, HTTP

4 points by HieronymusBosch 10 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: How to automate collecting HAR file while user is browsing (ycombinator.com)
We are facing an intermittent issue in our web application where for some users for some reasons http requests are ending in error ( 400s ) esp. during token refresh with authentication server.

Web Development, Debugging, Automation, HTTP, Authentication

25 points by royalghost 27 days ago | 19 comments

HTTP/2 Flow Control Deadlock (ycombinator.com)
Our real-world experience with flow control deadlock that manifested as infinite HTTP request hangs.

HTTP, Networking, Performance, Debugging

5 points by samlightfoot 45 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Dispatched.dev – Background Job Queues for Your Serverless Apps (dispatched.dev)
Stop managing queues and workers. Focus on building your app while we handle your background jobs with simple HTTP requests.

Serverless, Background Jobs, HTTP, Queues, Development

13 points by prageeths 52 days ago | 4 comments

Stenberg: Dropping Hyper (lwn.net)
Curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg announces that the curl project will be dropping hyper, its experimental HTTP backend written in Rust, due to lack of developer interest.

Curl, Open Source, HTTP, Programming Languages, Rust

5 points by askl 61 days ago | 1 comments

Where Is HTTP/3? (2021) (haxx.se)
tldr: the level of HTTP/3 support in servers is surprisingly high.

HTTP, Web Development, Networking

49 points by fanf2 66 days ago | 29 comments

Signing HTTP (medium.com)
There’s a new draft in the HTTP working group that deals with signing HTTP messages of all types. Why is it here, and what does that give us?

HTTP, Security, Web Development, Networking

4 points by mfbx9da4 68 days ago | 1 comments

Dependent Types and the Art of HTTP Headers (unwoundstack.com)
Making illegal state unrepresentable in Idris

Dependent Types, Programming Languages, Functional Programming, Idris, HTTP

41 points by todsacerdoti 84 days ago | 0 comments

Contentlesshtml – An HTML page served entire in HTTP headers (5snb.club)

Web Development, HTML, Networking, HTTP

42 points by dddnzzz334 87 days ago | 18 comments

Go-Safeweb (github.com/google)
go-safeweb is a collection of libraries for writing secure-by-default HTTP servers in Go.

Go, Security, HTTP, Libraries, Web Development

188 points by jcbhmr 99 days ago | 74 comments

Show HN: Small site to look up HTTP status codes (statuscode.xyz)
Thanks for your visit! If you like this site, consider buying me a coffee :-)

Web Development, HTTP, Tools

4 points by meixyz 110 days ago | 1 comments

Fcurl – fopen, fread, fwrite style functions for URL operations using libcurl (github.com/curl)
fcurl - fopen, fread, fwrite style functions for URL operations using libcurl

Libraries, Programming, Networking, HTTP, Curl

6 points by jcbhmr 118 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Clickhttp: ClickHouse via HTTP Protocol (github.com/0xMihalich)
Working with Clickhouse Database via HTTP Protocol | Работа с БД Clickhouse по HTTP-протоколу

ClickHouse, Databases, HTTP, Programming, Open Source

9 points by 0xMihalich 121 days ago | 5 comments

Potential pragmatic handling of partial matches for HTTP conditional GET (utoronto.ca)
In HTTP, a conditional GET is a GET request that potentially can be replied with a HTTP '304 Not Modified' status; this is quite useful for polling relatively unchanging resources like syndication feeds (although syndication feed readers don't always do so well at it).

HTTP, Networking, Web Development, Optimization

3 points by ingve 129 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: An open-source reverse proxy that authenticates users (github.com/stack-auth)
auth-proxy is a simple one-command proxy that authenticates your HTTP requests and redirects to a pre-built sign-in page if a user is not authenticated.

Open Source, Reverse Proxy, Authentication, HTTP, Security

14 points by n2d4 133 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Run a Rust HTTP Server in AWS Lambda (Axum+Scaffoldly) (github.com/scaffoldly)
Scaffoldly allows you to run any HTTP server inside AWS Lambda.

Rust, AWS Lambda, Serverless, HTTP, Frameworks

8 points by cnuss 136 days ago | 0 comments

How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length? (aarol.dev)
Anyone who has implemented a simple HTTP server can tell you that it is a really simple protocol. Basically, it’s a text file that has some specific rules to make parsing it easier.

HTTP, Web Development, Networking

271 points by misonic 137 days ago | 115 comments

Show HN: Httpdbg – A tool to trace the HTTP requests sent by your Python code (github.com/cle-b)
httpdbg is a tool for Python developers to easily debug the HTTP(S) client requests in a Python program.

Python, Debugging, HTTP, Tools, Software

200 points by cle-b 148 days ago | 55 comments

The HTTP Query Method (ietf.org)
This specification defines the HTTP QUERY request method as a means of making a safe, idempotent request that contains content.

HTTP, Web Development, Standards, Request Methods

119 points by todsacerdoti 158 days ago | 84 comments

Compression Dictionary Transport (ietf.org)
This document specifies a mechanism for dictionary-based compression in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). By utilizing this technique, clients and servers can reduce the size of transmitted data, leading to improved performance and reduced bandwidth consumption. This document extends existing HTTP compression methods and provides guidelines for the delivery and use of compression dictionaries within the HTTP protocol.

Networking, HTTP, Data Compression

70 points by tosh 158 days ago | 50 comments

Bombardier: Fast cross-platform HTTP benchmarking tool written in Go (github.com/codesenberg)
bombardier is a HTTP(S) benchmarking tool. It is written in Go programming language and uses excellent fasthttp instead of Go's default http library, because of its lightning fast performance.

Benchmarking, HTTP, Tools

32 points by nateb2022 161 days ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: Is anyone making use of the HTTP QUERY verb? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Is anyone making use of the HTTP QUERY verb?

HTTP, Web Development, API, Networking

10 points by johnhenry 165 days ago | 3 comments

HTTP Trailer Header (mozilla.org)

HTTP, Networking, Web Development

4 points by zerojames 174 days ago | 0 comments

HTTP/1.0 from Scratch (kmcd.dev)

HTTP, Programming, Web Development, Networking

7 points by todsacerdoti 191 days ago | 1 comments

Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance (2020) (cloudflare.com)