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If i wanted to encrypt a password on my website before its sent to the server, would i have to encrypt the password in javascript on the frontend for it to be hidden over the interent or could it be ...
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So I have been down the rabbit hole of finding that HTML forms don't support DELETE requests, and then looking into mimicking the the behaviour with a Javascript fetch request (but it is not ...
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I'm studying asynchronous IO, concurrent models for IO and how things works on windows, linux and most used web frameworks. I'm struggling on understanding why single-threaded event loops like the one ...
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I am developing a webservice, which offers different services, but currently under different ports. Existing services like GitHub or GitLab also several services, but I am wondering how they can ...
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I came up with an model to reduce DoS and DDoS attacks and would like your input on its effectiveness... Basically, once a request reaches our servers without having a valid key, we add a key as a ...
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I have an ecommerce website wherein as soon as a new user comes on website then a new visitorId gets generated for that user in database and that visitorId cookie gets stored in his browser and in ...
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My question is based on a few assumptions so please correct me on any of them below I know that TCP has always been socket based In order for a server to maintain that socket, a thread has to block ...
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An application provides a REST interface to offer status and statistics information. localhost:1111/stats -> return JSON encoded statistics localhost:1111/status -> return JSON encoded system ...
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I'm trying to understand this and having a hard time. I usually use Ubuntu server, with Apache2, and this time I am not. So I'm a bit out of my element. I'm also a software developer and I don't do ...
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Recently I was reviewing my team leader pull request in our Web API hosted by Kestrel. There was a place in our code which is sort of hot path and we are processing frequently over hundred of items ...
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So I tried to access certain website using its server IP address and usually it does not go through. Let's assume IP masquerade technique is not being used such as NAT or reverse proxy. This makes me ...
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So what I know about socket is that a socket is an end point of a connection for a process, hence 1 socket on a host binds to an IP and a unique port number for each connection. But a webserver (by ...
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I'm developing an enterprise web application, hosted on site and managed by the corporate IT team. I do not have remote access to the server, and the only way in is through the web interface. I'd like ...
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I serve static content from Tomcat. Someone suggested moving the static content to a web server in order to optimize performance. How are web servers designed that makes them better at delivering ...
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I have an architecture/performance problem. The problem: One voting based application with: 1 loadbalancer, 2 webservers and a database 10 candidates and 200k voting users. There may be more than 100 ...
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