When it comes to optimizing your website for search engines, every detail matters — including the HTTP headers. But what exactly are HTTP headers, and why should you care? HTTP headers allow the ...

Security headers can be coded into a website, but typically they are implemented via a website's underlying Web server and interact with a site visitor's Web browser to set restrictions and other ...

All types of websites and web apps, ranging from single page websites to large multifaceted web apps, are vulnerable to cyber-attacks. In 2016 alone, around 40% of security breaches on data primarily ...

Web API projects provide a useful and structured way for devices and external systems to interact with your precious server resources. The typical implementation uses a combination of crafted URLs and ...

Developers of the Firefox browser want to better protect user privacy by limiting the amount of data contained in Referer headers. The "meta referrer," as the new feature is dubbed, is aimed at ...

Beginning in Chrome 85, Chrome will check if there’s a referrer security header. If none is present, Chrome will automatically default to a strict header. Publishers who need the full URL to be passed ...

A researcher has created a method for testing and identifying how HTTP/HTTPS headers can be abused to sneak malicious code into back-end servers. Daniel Thatcher, researcher and penetration tester at ...