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Hyper-Text Transport Protocol, the system used on the Internet for serving and retrieving pages from web sites

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Safari Redirecting http to (non-existent) https

Safari forces a redirect to the https version of a site I previously visited via https. However, the https site no longer works and there is no way to prevent Safari form trying to load it. Here is a related Apple Forums question, Safari keeps…
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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 able to use Safari with HTTPS, so must be something…
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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 the iPhone app is using HTML5 (or even if it's a…
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Free alternative to Charles

Does anybody know a free alternative to Charles (an HTTP debugging proxy), preferably with a GUI and similar features? Features that I'm interested in: Inspect HTTP requests/responses (header, body, etc) JSON syntax highlighting and…
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How to change Safari HTTP header Accept-Language?

In Firefox Accept-Language is set globally for the browser in the general preferences or via an extension like "Modify Headers" for more frequent changes. But how to do that in Safari? Safari. On OS X the language sent is that specified in the OS X…
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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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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 redirects you to the iPhone applications. Is…
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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 built-in WebDAV client? Are there alternatives…
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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 means that I can't bookmark the page (a bookmark…
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How to stop Safari on macOS from using https when I want http, when it's not in the HSTS listing

When I try to visit certain sites and force http (for good reasons that do not need to be discussed here), Safari (macOS) forces the URL to use https - and since the site currently has no https support, I can't visit the site. There are many answers…
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Post data to url using AppleScript

I am trying to take user input and send the data to a url on my site to do some checks against my database. In my php script I cant display any of the POST variables. it seems like the data is not being sent. I am new to AppleScript so perhaps I…
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All HTTP requests get ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED, HTTPS works - How to troubleshoot?

Trying to open a http website on any web browser (event telnet) gives a ‘ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED’ or ‘connection timed out’. However, the same sites can be opened using https. I tried doing a traceroute and it works fine. I am new to OS X but have…
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Using Charles web proxy with iPhone hotspot

I've been using Charles to sniff the requests that my iPhone is making for some time now. I've always got it to work by connecting both my iPhone and my MacBook to the same wireless network and then entering my computer's local IP address along with…
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How can I create a wifi hotspot which passes all traffics to local proxy server?

I have a mitmproxy server listening on port 9999 and my macbook pro is connected to internet with usb tethering. I want to make a wifi hotspot which forwards all request to the mitmproxy server. How can I do this? I want network communication like…
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Can we setup a local HTTPS Server in Mac OS X using swift

I want to setup a local HTTP Server running in my Mac OSX machine which should be able to handle requests that are coming from web browser. But I am not sure whether we can setup HTTPS server using swift. In this https://swift.org/server-apis/ there…
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