The formal process of speeding up Hypertext Transfer Protocol is under way with proposals from Google, Microsoft, and others. There are differences -- but common ground, too. Stephen Shankland worked ...

The HTTP/2 protocol will speed Web delivery, though it also may put more strain on Web servers as a result When it comes to speeding up Web traffic over the Internet, sometimes too much of a good ...

Microsoft this week released “Katana,” a server implementation that will allow developers to begin trying out Microsoft’s version of what could become HTTP 2.0: the future of the Web. A Microsoft blog ...

We wouldn’t consider Windows authentication as a feasible strategy as you cannot expose your service over the Internet if you leverage Windows authentication. Forms authentication uses the ASP.Net ...

In an age when every click, every connection, and every emotion can be monetised, it feels almost unbelievable that the World ...

The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three HTTP verbs: GET, POST and HEAD. The most commonly used HTTP method is GET. The purpose of the GET method ...

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