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Chrome 68 "Not secure" How to make it in red color?
Yes, we do have that option
Result
The result being all non-HTTPS pages in red color:
Setting it up
Access internal settings:
chrome://flags/
Look for:
Mark non-secure origins as non-secure
or ...
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Why does my browser attempt to download pages from http://clhs.lisp.se instead of viewing them normally?
There is something wrong with the way that website and/or web sever is delivering web pages.
This is not a problem on your end but rather something odd on the server side; with either the website ...
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Are HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and NO_PROXY environment variables standard?
There is no real standard.
Different tools interpret these variables similarly but subtly differently. For example the case of the recognised environment variables and the case-precedence varies ...
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Can you go to a website by typing the IP address into the address bar?
TL;DR It depends on the server's configuration. A quick positive example is one.one.one.one / 1.1.1.1.
I'm assuming you're following the usual lecture on your Computer Networking course about how ...
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What protocol is used for downloading files?
Say I download an executable like Pycharm from Jetbrains.com. HTTP was used to deliver contents of the website - is this also used when I download the file? I read that FTP was used but also saw it's ...
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How does browser know which version of HTTP it should use when sending a request?
HTTP/1.x
Both HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/1.0 use compatible request formats. After the first request, the server's response will indicate the version it supports, plus headers such as "Connection: keep-...
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Can you go to a website by typing the IP address into the address bar?
The IP stack isn't really 'aware' or 'care' about the IP. All DNS does is tell you "this domain name is at this IP".
In the 'simplest' sense there's no difference between either scenario - ...
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Can you go to a website by typing the IP address into the address bar?
Call me crazy but none of the current answers contains the word "header", which is the most important part for a web server like Apache, Nginx etc. to resolve the correct site. The host ...
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Why I use chrome request a site URL do not see Host header?
All HTTP/1.1 request messages must contain a Host header field.
Yes, but what you have is not actually an HTTP/1.1 request.
You're looking at HTTP/2, where the :authority pseudo-header serves the ...
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Are there well known HTTP-only sites?
Old thread, but here's another one: http://httpforever.com/
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Convert HTTP requests to SOCKS5
HTTP Proxy to Socks5
Install python-proxy
$ pip3 install pproxy
$ pproxy -r socks5://127.0.0.1:9150 -vv
Usage
http://127.0.0.1:8080
https://127.0.0.1:8080
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Are there well known HTTP-only sites?
These answers came from the comments and I believe they need a separate entry in the answers so they can be easily found.
http://google.com/generate_204
(from @GiantTree)
As a note, one user tried to ...
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Firefox allow HTTP URLs (and not force HTTPS)
I ran into this while using dev as an alias for 127.0.0.1 because I wanted to use a host header with nginx to access a virtual server.
Turns out that's now a real TLD and part of what's called the &...
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HTTP 400 "Bad Request" - how may I diagnose this from server side?
Is there any way I can see the raw incoming POST requests being received by the nginx web server so I can see what's wrong with my modem's output?
If you have root access to the server – use a ...
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Are there well known HTTP-only sites?
This website is for testing ssl: https://badssl.com/
It includes several subdomains that intentionally will never have ssl enabled, such as:
http://http.badssl.com/
http://http-textarea.badssl.com/
...
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How to enable HTTPS for Windows Update?
An excerpt from Microsoft's documentation:
Regardless of how the content is delivered, once it has been downloaded, it's properly validated. Content is validated for trust, integrity, and intention ...
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Is it possible to disable the HTTP referer header being passed by browsers?
To disable referrers in the various browsers and utilities:
Chrome
Invoking Chrome with the parameter of --no-referrers will disable sending referrers.
Or you could use the extension of noref.
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What is the difference between Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod?
systemcenterautomation.com did a blog post about this. The conclusion:
Invoke-RestMethod is much better at dealing with XML and JSON results,
while Invoke-WebRequest is better at dealing with ...
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Why does my browser attempt to download pages from http://clhs.lisp.se instead of viewing them normally?
This funny website return for your page an answer with the following headers:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 8896
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 ...
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How do I make Firefox forget HTTP Basic Auth?
Make the request from a private window.
In Firefox: File - New Private Window (Ubuntu Ctrl+Shift+P)
In Chrome New incognito Window (Ubuntu Ctrl+Shift+N)
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Instant reverse HTTP proxy from a Linux command-line
mitmproxy is a fully fledge proxy and http packet analysis tool. The best I've found so far.
For your use case:
mitmproxy --listen-port 8000 --mode reverse:https://example.com/path
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How do I log out with HTTP Basic?
For chrome browser you can restart the chrome application completely by typing in the address bar.
chrome://restart
Another way is that, always open the browser in incognito mode. For chrome the ...
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Firefox allow HTTP URLs (and not force HTTPS)
Neither
browser.fixup.fallback-to-https: false
browser.urlbar.autoFill: false
HTTPS Only disabled in settings
HTTPS Only enabled and correct exceptions set
and all possible combinations of them did ...
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How can I use a VPN to access a Russian website that is banned in the EU?
I installed the package openresolv that is available for Debian (the ArchWiki has more information about DNS).
The second thing I did was to insert the following three lines into the ovpn-file before ...
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What's the reasoning for nginx defaulting to error 503 when a rate limit applies instead of error 429?
Recently I found this discussion thread, citing @niels-keurentjes
They have different semantics. 503 implies a server error (5xx range), specifically in this case a backend server being protected ...
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ubuntu apt - why are the respositories accessed over HTTP?
Most of the time the files are downloaded from a mirror and not from the ubuntu servers, so even if the ubuntu site uses HTTPS, you are going to be downloading files from sites like http://ubuntu.unc....
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HTTP vs TCP vs UDP with this example?
Familiarize yourself with the OSI model. Read the Wikipedia thoroughly, it will probably answer the questions you'll have after reading this answer.
HTTP and TCP aren't alternatives. These protocols ...
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Why does my browser attempt to download pages from http://clhs.lisp.se instead of viewing them normally?
You can try ModHeader. After install you visit the root of the site, click on the extension icon, then on the plus sign, response header and type Content-Type. Happy browsing of that site.
You can ...
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How do I change the default TCP listening port for VLC HTTP Remote Control from 8080?
In the vlcrc file %APPDATA%\vlc\vlcrc
Search for the setting http-port=
There are three settings that contain http-port but only the one which is only http-port is the correct one to modify.
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