If you browse the web regularly, chances are you have seen gstatic.com, among the hostnames that fly by in the browser’s status bar while browsing the web. It’s something that many netizens are not ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three ...

This graph of the value of the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index shows the dot-com bubble forming around 1995 and gathering value until early 2000 when it began to burst, portending a two-year bear ...

Written by Google, the Google HTTP Client Library for Java is a flexible, efficient, and powerful Java library for accessing any resource on the web via HTTP. The library has the following features: ...

HTTP Downloader is an open-source multi-part download manager for Windows that allows you to maximize download throughput. It can work well with FTPS and HTTPS protocols. It is a clean and organized ...

HTTP/3 brings improved performance and reliability, along with various security and privacy benefits, but there are some noteworthy challenges. HTTP3, the third official version of hypertext transfer ...

The Chrome browser will start labeling sites using HTTP as “not secure” today. Many sites on the internet are still not secure. The list compiled below includes major sites like FoxNews.com, BBC.com, ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You may have heard people urging you to switch your website to the HTTPS security encryption. They cite Google’s announcement that HTTPS ...

Oh, and, based on the date of that SO question, it probably was true back when it was written. But as noted above, it was a security hole which has intentionally been plugged.