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Finding the 302 Hiding in Your Redirect Chain, With curl
A redirect chain is a redirect that points at another redirect. Browsers follow the whole sequence without showing it, so a chain can sit on a site…
Our link audit called two citations broken, and curl proved it right and wrong at the same time
CogniPrep has a page for the PELLETB, the written exam California law enforcement agencies use. Part of that page is a table of agencies and what ea…
Your video breaks when you serve it from your own server, and 416 is usually the reason
If you moved private files off presigned URLs and started serving them through your own route, you have probably hit this: images are fine, PDFs are…
Why HTTP/3 Exists: The Limits of HTTP/2 and the Rise of QUIC
HTTP/2 already gave us multiplexing, binary framing, and better use of a single TCP connection. So why did we need HTTP/3? The answer is not really…
HttpForge 1.1.1: A Source-Generated REST Client for .NET MAUI
A ViewModel should call GetUser(42) . It should not assemble HttpRequestMessage by hand, and it should not discover a wrong route at runtime. Plugin…
I Blamed Sticky Sessions for 48 Hours. The Pool Still Held the Old Socket.
I spent forty-eight hours convinced our load balancer was sticky in the worst possible way after a quiet rolling deploy. After every rolling restart…
Multipart Uploads Made Simple: Sending Files with curl's `-F` Flag in Java
Every admin console ends up with a file upload — Excel imports, avatar pictures, PDF attachments. Implementing multipart requests by hand in OkHttp…
HTTP QUERY Has Arrived: The Method That Fills the Gap Between GET and POST
Why complex queries finally got their own HTTP method — and what that changes about API design For years, one deceptively simple question has kept c…
nginx silently rejects the new HTTP QUERY method
RFC 10008 went to Proposed Standard in June. It adds QUERY, a new HTTP method. Safe and idempotent like GET, but it carries a body like POST. On pap…
Day 1 — ইন্টারনেট আসলে কীভাবে কাজ করে
আকাশ নামের এক ছেলের কাছে একটা ফোন এলো। ওপাশ থেকে একজন খুব সিরিয়াস গলায় বলল, "আমাদের ব্যাংকের server maintain করা হচ্ছে। আপনার অ্যাকাউন্টে একটু সমস্য…
Lightweight, native HTTP client built in C++20 — a fast, local-first alternative to Postman and Insomnia
The project is actively developed, and I'm committed to supporting anyone who tries it. If you encounter any issues, I'm glad to help, and any feedb…
Will HTTP/3 Make Unity Faster? Choosing HTTP for APIs, Asset Downloads, and Real-Time Networking
Unity networking can look simple: call UnityWebRequest.Get() , wait, and parse. In production, protocol choice also affects concurrent APIs, Address…
Compression, Minification & HTTP: The Complete Guide to Making the Web Smaller
What is Compression? Compression means reducing the size of data by encoding it using fewer bits (0s and 1s) . In simple words: Compression reduces…
SSE in Go: Your Timeouts Do Not Apply Where You Think
An SSE stream is an HTTP request that never ends. Every default you did not touch is working against it. TL;DR : your SSE endpoint breaks twice befo…
Native HTTP Engine for Node: Performance Benchmarks Against uWS, Bun, Fastify, and Hono
Overview A native HTTP engine for Node.js has been developed with the goal of providing a faster, built-in alternative to the standard node:http mod…
Head-of-Line Blocking in HTTP
An asynchronous HTTP/1.1 server can handle many connections concurrently while still serializing work within each connection. Send a slow request fo…
New HTTP QUERY Method (RFC 10008) Explained | Stop Using POST for Search
Introduction In June 2026, the IETF published RFC 10008 - the first new general-purpose HTTP method since PATCH was introduced in 2010. The method i…
Using HTTP QUERY in Laravel Without Making Your API Harder to Maintain
The short version is this: GET should remain your default search method in Laravel, POST is still the pragmatic fallback for complex filters, and QU…
HTTP QUERY is here: what changes for frontend data fetching?
You’ve probably hit this frustrating moment: your frontend needs to fetch data with complex filters or queries, but GET just won’t cut it because yo…
HTTP QUERY Is Here — And Your Infrastructure Isn't Ready For It
HTTP QUERY Is Here — And Your Infrastructure Isn't Ready For It In June 2026, the IETF published RFC 10008 , standardizing a new HTTP method: QUERY…
HTTP/2: The Protocol That Stopped the Connection Explosion
In the previous article , we explored why HTTP/1.1 eventually became a bottleneck. The web had evolved from a collection of simple documents into a…
HTTP QUERY Method: A Better Way to Handle Complex Read Operations
HTTP has a new request method: QUERY . For years, developers have mainly used GET to fetch data and POST to send or process data. But there has alwa…
The HTTP QUERY method (RFC 10008) is here — and caching it correctly is harder than it looks
TL;DR HTTP got a new method: QUERY (RFC 10008, June 2026). It's a safe, idempotent, cacheable request that carries a body — "GET with a body." It fi…
HTTP finally has a proper way to send a query: meet the QUERY method
For decades we've had exactly two bad options for "read something using a complex input": cram everything into a GET URL, or lie and use POST. In Ju…
HTTP QUERY Method: The Missing Piece Finally Added to HTTP
For years, developers have faced a common dilemma when building REST APIs: How do you send a complex, read-only query without misusing HTTP methods?…
HTTP QUERY Method — Complete Guide
The HTTP QUERY method is a proposed HTTP request method designed to perform safe, idempotent query operations that require a request body. Table of…
BlackBull goes multi-protocol (part 3) — one `app.py`, two protocols
The first two posts were the engineering: part 1 rebuilt the connection dispatcher so BlackBull's core stopped assuming HTTP, and part 2 put a lock-…
The 2026-07-28 MCP Spec: A Server Readiness Checklist
The next Model Context Protocol specification, 2026-07-28 , is the largest revision since the protocol launched. The release candidate locked on May…
Sunset Your API Endpoints on Purpose: The Deprecation and Sunset Headers
Killing an API endpoint is easy. Killing it without breaking your consumers is the hard part. Most teams announce a deprecation in a blog post, send…