HTTPHeaders
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HTTP Headers Explained: Key Types and Uses
HTTP headers are key-value metadata sent alongside a request or response that control behavior without touching the body — covering content negotiation (Accept…
What is Chunked Transfer Encoding?
Chunked transfer encoding is an HTTP/1.1 mechanism that lets a server stream a response body in a series of independently-sized chunks without knowing the tota…
What is HTTP Content Negotiation?
HTTP content negotiation is the process by which a client and server agree on the best representation of a resource to return — such as its format, language, o…
How Do Cookies Work Over HTTP?
A cookie is a small piece of state a server asks a browser to store via the `Set-Cookie` response header, which the browser then automatically re-attaches on t…
What is CORS and How Does It Work?
CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) is a browser-enforced security mechanism that lets a server explicitly declare, via HTTP response headers, which other ori…
What is Content Security Policy (CSP)?
Content Security Policy (CSP) is an HTTP response header that tells the browser which sources of scripts, styles, images, and other resources are allowed to lo…
What Are HTTP Security Headers and Why Do They Matter?
HTTP security headers are response headers a server sends to instruct the browser to enable or restrict specific behaviors — such as blocking inline scripts, r…
How Do CSP Nonces Prevent Inline Script Injection?
A CSP nonce is a random, single-use token the server generates per response and embeds both in the Content-Security-Policy header and as a nonce attribute on e…
What Does the Referrer-Policy Header Control?
The Referrer-Policy header controls how much information about the current page’s URL the browser includes in the Referer header when the user navigates away o…
What Is the Permissions-Policy Header Used For?
The Permissions-Policy header lets a site explicitly enable or disable powerful browser features — such as the camera, microphone, geolocation, or autoplay — f…