Category "http"

How websockets can be faster than a simple HTTP request?

You still need to send requests from your computer to the website's server and back and forth. How can websockets make it so much faster?

How do I use Django piston to return a response in text/plain?

I want to NOT serialize anything. I just want to return what is equivalent to HttpResponse(blah)

Getting directory listing over http

There is a directory that is being served over the net which I'm interested in monitoring. Its contents are various versions of software that I'm using and I'd

How to resolve the issue of HTTP ERROR 405 [closed]

I created a Web API project in which the webpage on which I want to display the response from the API is not working. The web page shows "This

Python: How do I get key/value pairs from the BaseHTTPRequestHandler HTTP POST handler?

given the simplest HTTP server, how do I get post variables in a BaseHTTPRequestHandler? from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer class H

HTTP response code for POST when resource already exists

I'm building a server that allows clients to store objects. Those objects are fully constructed at client side, complete with object IDs that are permanent for

How does webserver handle HTTP POST [closed]

This might be a very basic question. But, the question that I am trying to address is that Webserver is there to handle HTTP Requests, So it's