http reverse cache
presentation on varnish cache
Microsoft Internet Explorer has a maximum uniform resource locator (URL) length of 2,083 characters. Internet Explorer also has a maximum path length of 2,048 characters. This limit applies to both POST request and GET request URLs.
Hurl makes HTTP requests.
web server usage statistics
301 is an uri redirector. It allows you to create short links for long web addresses. Just submit a longish uri in the form at 301.sickos.org, and you receive a shorter handle therefor. This can be passed on the phone, on irc or wherever you want to use a tiny uri.
Some of you may be aware of the technique of banner grabbing to find out what software is running on a remote machine. It is done by reading out transmitted data that contains a product name and/or version, such as HTTP's "Server:" response header. Like virtually every content sent by a server, the server is totally free what to send, i.e. this can be easily faked by an HTTP server's admin, and is sometimes even done.
