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How does a CDN like CloudFlare work?

What I understand so far: You keep your current web hosting, but you change the DNS servers for your site from the DNS servers of your current hosting to CloudFlare's DNS servers. CloudFlare serves your website's resources from multiple data…
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What is the need of methods like GET and POST in the HTTP protocol?

Can we not implement the HTTP protocol using just a request body and a response body? For example, the URL will contain request, which will be mapped to a function depending on programming language on server side say a Servlet and in response HTML…
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Vulnerability in /boaform/admin/formLogin?

I am getting this HTTP request line on my server (simple http server). The normal action for this request on my server is to simply close the socket connection. I am asking this question because when I web search what is /boaform/admin/formLogin…
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Can I POST to a new window that I want to open up?

Is this possible? A third party site is running my Drupal module An end user clicks on a link which will: Open up a new window www.mysite.com/redirect.php and POST certain data to this page www.mysite.com/redirect.php I've seen the user's browser…
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What should be the word count of an article for better ranking in 2014?

I know that SERPs depends on many factors like backlinks, page authority, keywords placement etc. But I noticed that Google also look for the word count of the article. In 2010,2011 articles with 250+ word count got ranked in Google. But in…
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Can linking to random related posts have SEO consequences?

I am using WordPress and by default my related posts system works by gathering posts and shows them based on the tags they have. This is OK when you have few posts but with a lot of posts only the newest ones show up and the older ones never. If I…
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Different authentication for HTTP POST and GET requests in Apache

I want to authenticate for POST requests for http://path/to/logical/abc.xml (but not GET requests to that URL). How do I put constraints like this in place? The paths are logical and location directive is not supported in .htaccess.
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Is a PHP POST using cURL from HTTPS site to HTTP endpoint encrypted securely?

I have a website residing on a domain with a valid SSL certificate that is fully using HTTPS. If I take form data from this site that is secured with an SSL and send it to a non-secure HTTP endpoint using a cURL POST is the transmission fully…
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Do CDNs work with POST operations?

I'm using a CDN (Level3) for the first time and I'm a bit confused. I'm accessing dynamic URLs such as http://cdn.mysite.com?getItem=1234 that return text data. Do CDNs work with HTTP POST operations? When i issue a HTTP POST operation, my "real"…
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Does Google perform onClick actions?

Can somebody approve to see, that Google (googlebot / crawler) performs onClick (or similar js) actions? It is fact, that Google performs POST - i'm interesting, whether somebody has realized any js action done by Google
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How does browser know which HTTP method like GET,POST etc to use?

I had asked a related below question and from answers, I got a sense of why is there a notion of methods like GET,POST etc in http protocol: What is the need of methods like GET and POST in the HTTP protocol? This raises another question like how…
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POST attack on my website

I have a site (humanisms.co.uk) which incorporates a voting system, ie. user clicks "Up" and it sends a parameter to a PHP script via AJAX, the PHP inserts vote into MYSQL db and the new "Up" vote is sent back to the page to update the vote count.…
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Schema aggregate ratings incorrect values

does anyone know why google is reporting incorrect values in this image?
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When and how do I remove temporary files on server left from abandoned forms?

I have a form on my site to submit posts, it features multiple file upload tool (Mini Ajax File Upload Form) which submits files to server as they are added (before actual post submission) and server then stores them in temp dir. Once article has…
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A static page vs a category page. Which is better in terms of SEO and ranking possibilities?

From an SEO perspective, consider the following website presenting mobile phones. The website will have a section for "Best phones" where you can find a list of phones with short descriptions and a link to a full description for the phone you wish…
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