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unusual facts about HTTP



Apache Group

The original name for the Apache Software Foundation, most famous for its support of the Apache HTTP Server

Apache Synapse

Existing services may be SOAP, POX/REST services over HTTP/S, as well as SOAP or legacy services over JMS, Apache VFS file systems (e.g. s/ftp, file, zip/tar/gz, webdav, cifs etc.), Mail systems (e.g. pop3, imap, smtp), Financial Information eXchange (FIX), Hessian, AMQP etc.

Colony Framework

In practice this implies that even core HTTP server components, such as filesystem access and socket interfaces, are provided as modules and can be hotswapped.

Darcs

Key features include the ability to choose which changes to accept from other repositories, interaction with either other local (on-disk) repositories or remote repositories via SSH, HTTP, or email, and an unusually interactive interface.

DUATS

The service may be accessed by direct dial (using a terminal emulator like HyperTerminal), and the Internet via Telnet or HTTP.

FastCGI

This module used to be third-party, but was granted to the ASF as an Apache HTTP Server subproject in 2009, shepherded by Chris Darroch.

GpsGate

Advanced users can use GpsGate Client to share a GPS over networks, HTTP, Bluetooth and ActiveSync and multiplex and split NMEA streams.

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen

He joined the staff of W3C in March 1995, and continued work on HTTP and other Web protocol topics such as the Line Mode Browser and libwww.

HTTP header injection

Header injection in HTTP responses can allow for HTTP response splitting (also known as CRLF - Carriage Return Line Feed), Session fixation via the Set-Cookie header, cross-site scripting (XSS), and malicious redirects attacks via the location header.

IBM WebSphere Message Broker

IIB avoids the point-to-point strain on development resources by connecting any application or service over multiple protocols, including SOAP, HTTP and JMS.

Idempotence

In the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), idempotence and safety are the major attributes that separate HTTP verbs.

Igor Sysoev

Sysoev is best known as the creator and developer of nginx (pronounced Engine X), a HTTP, reverse proxy, and e-mail proxy server.

Intranet

Any of the well known Internet protocols may be found in an intranet, such as HTTP (web services), SMTP (e-mail), and FTP (file transfer protocol).

IronMQ

IronMQ uses HTTP/REST-based protocol and supports JSON messages up to 64k; guarantees order (FIFO); guarantees once only delivery; no delays retrieving messages.

KIO

KIO slaves are programs that provide support for individual protocols (e.g. HTTP, FTP, SMB, SSH, FISH, SFTP, SVN, TAR).

MemSource

The API is provided via HTTP/JSON and there is the free Developer edition available for development/testing purposes.

Mutalyzer

The Mutalyzer server supports programmatic access via a SOAP Web service described in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) and an HTTP/RPC+JSON web service.

NeoLoad

NeoLoad supports any type of web application including those using J2EE, .NET, AJAX, Flex, Silverlight, GWT, SOAP, PHP, Push technology, etc. as long as they are HTTP 1.0 or 1.1 compliant.

NetPositive

Built binaries of NetPositive, including all encryption libraries, and other tools not provided by the OS itself, such as the HTTP and FTP engines, weigh in from 1.4 to 1.7 MB in size, uncompressed, depending on the strength of encryption provided.

Niklas Integration Platform

In order to transport these files, Niklas supports FTP/SFTP, HTTP/HTTPS, POP3, SMTP, IMAP, SOAP, MQ and JMS.

Norconex

In 2013 Norconex released its first contribution to the open-source community with its HTTP Web crawler (named Norconex HTTP Collector).

Ralph Nelson

He was the father of Project Xanadu (precursor and main inspiration of the World Wide Web's HTML format and HTTP protocol) inventor Ted Nelson (by his first wife, actress Celeste Holm), and, by his other marriage(s): Ralph, Peter, and Meredith Nelson.

Raspcontrol

Raspcontrol has an inbuilt routing script which allows it to be used without a HTTP Server such as Apache, the script calls a PHP 5.4 development server on port 80 via a shell script.

Referer spoofing

In HTTP networking, typically on the World Wide Web, referer spoofing (based on a canonised misspelling of "referrer") is the sending of incorrect referer information in an HTTP request in order to prevent a website from obtaining accurate data on the identity of the web page previously visited by the user.

Referer spoofing is typically done for data privacy reasons, in testing, or in order to request information which some web servers may only supply in response to requests with specific HTTP referers.

Saetta Web Server

Saetta Web Server can deploy dynamic HTTP content on a network using SAAPIs, server-side applications written in the C or C++ programming language, or in PHP with the embedded PHP module for PHP web pages, or the CGI handler for scripts.

SOAP

It relies on XML Information Set for its message format, and usually relies on other Application Layer protocols, most notably Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), for message negotiation and transmission.

SoftArtisans

The company has two products: OfficeWriter, a .NET-based Microsoft Office reporting solution and FileUp, a client-server-server HTTP file transfer provider.

SPDY

In June 2013, LiteSpeed Technologies announced support for SPDY/2 and SPDY/3 on OpenLiteSpeed, their open source HTTP server.

Stateless protocol

For example, HTTP is an example of a stateless protocol layered on top of TCP, a stateful protocol, which is layered on top of IP, another stateless protocol, which is routed on a network that employs BGP, another stateful protocol, to direct the IP packets riding on the network.

Unisys OS 2200 communications

WebTS, the OS 2200 Web Transaction Server, is a full implementation of the HTTP and HTTPS protocol stacks.

Universal Plug and Play

For example, Adobe Flash programs running outside the sandbox (specific version needed with security issues) are capable of generating a specific type of HTTP request which allows a router implementing the UPnP IGD protocol to be controlled by a malicious web site when someone with a UPnP-enabled router simply visits that web site.

Windows Meeting Space

For collaboration over the Internet, Microsoft has released Microsoft SharedView, which can work through firewalls using HTTP if necessary.

Xplico

This allows to focus the decoding, that is, if you want to decode only VoIP calls but not the Web traffic then you configure Xplico to load only the RTP and SIP modules excluding the HTTP module.

XST

Cross-site tracing, a network security vulnerability exploiting the HTTP TRACE method.

ΜClinux

The "μClinux-dist" userland utilities contain tiny HTTP servers, a small 'sh like' shell, and even a fun ASCII art Star Wars film.


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