Hyper-Text Transport Protocol, the system used on the Internet for serving and retrieving pages from web sites
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Safari can't connect to https
Safari suddenly can't connect to any HTTPS site because it "can't establish a secure connection".
This is on an administrator account, not a managed account.
A different administrator account is ...
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Access iCloud mail via http from iPhone
There are times when you can't use any TCP ports other than 80 (HTTP) or 443 (HTTPS), so you can't use Mail accounts that communicate with iCloud via IMAP/POP3/SMTP. But when you go to iCloud.com, it ...
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Built-in WebDAV client able to connect via HTTPS with client certificate?
Using Mac OS 10.6.8, I'm trying to connect via HTTPS to a WebDAV server that requires client certificates. Without luck so far. The certificate is stored in the keychain.
Is this possible with the ...
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Bookmark a POST request
Certain online shops I use don't easily allow you to bookmark an Order Status page.
That's because they use a POST request to access that info. So, the order number is not encoded in the URL. Which ...
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Is there a native/cocoa REST client for Mac OS X?
I'm looking for a cocoa REST client for the OS X. I prefer something native so that I'm not in the terminal interface and not looking for any browser extensions.
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What is a good http benchmark program for Mac OS X?
What is a good http benchmark program for Mac OS X?
I have Apache's 'ab' installed, but it's buggy and there doesn't seem to be a Mac OS X package for Apache as an upgrade. I don't like compiling and ...
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Cannot establish HTTPS connection
My OSX Lion MacBook Pro suddenly seems to be unable to connect to any website via HTTPS. HTTP works fine, but HTTPS seems to just time out. Using netcat:
Mithril:~ mitch$ nc google.com 80
GET /
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Why can I browse with Firefox but not with Safari or Chrome?
I had a problem a while back where Chrome was working fine but Safari and Firefox were not. This was fixed by unchecking the "auto-discover proxy" box in the network configuration. See my previous ...
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Are iTunes Match songs streamed over HTTP and do they use CDN?
I do not have iTunes Match yet but I am interested in understanding the underlying logistics. We know that Apple built a new data center for iCloud and Match in North Carolina, but when you ...
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How can I convince Safari to be responsible for ttp:// URLs as well as http:// URLs?
When somebody sends me a URL in an email, it is opened by Safari.
But often people make a mistake when copying the links (how I do not know) and the URL starts with ttp:// instead of http://.
Is ...
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How do you watch HTTP requests an iPhone app is making?
Just the same way you can open the web inspector or activity window in Safari on your laptop and see all the HTTP requests any website has made, how do you do that on the iphone for an iPhone app, if ...
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HTTP Get is not working stable after Netboot
I am booting a Netboot Image with a MacMini 5.1, after the system is up a shell script calls a server via curl.
At the moment the Internet connection is up and running. I verify that doing a ping to ...
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Safari (6) and HTTPS
Is there any method to make Safari (6) trying to connect to a website with HTTPS connection and switch to HTTP if HTTPS is not supported?
(See HTTPS Everywhere for Firefox).
