Sunday, 19 August 2018
Thursday, 16 August 2018
Do you Trust Australia? Part Two
After a couple of sleeps, I think my concerns about the proposed Assistance and Access Bill 2018 have crystallised.Tuesday, 14 August 2018
Do you Trust Australia?
This morning, the Australian Department of Home Affairs released the Assistance and Access Bill 2018 for consultation.Tuesday, 31 July 2018
How to Read an RFC
For better or worse, Requests for Comments (RFCs) are how we specify many protocols on the Internet. These documents are alternatively treated as holy texts by developers who parse them for hidden meanings, then shunned as irrelevant because they can’t be understood. This often leads to frustration and – more significantly – interoperability and security issues.Wednesday, 7 June 2017
How (Not) to Control Your CDN
In February, Omer Gil described the Web Cache Deception Attack.Thursday, 11 May 2017
How to Think About HTTP Status Codes
There’s more than a little confusion and angst out there about HTTP status codes. I’ve received more than a few e-mails (and IMs, and DMs) over the years from stressed-out developers (once at 2am, their time!) asking something like this:Thursday, 16 March 2017
The State of Browser Caching, Revisited
A long, long time ago, I wrote some tests using XmlHttpRequest to figure out how well browser caches behaved, and wrote up the results.Friday, 22 April 2016
Ideal HTTP Performance
The implicit goal for Web performance is to reduce end-user perceived latency; to get the page in front of the user and interactive as soon as possible.Wednesday, 9 March 2016
Alternative Services
The IESG has approved “HTTP Alternative Services” for publication as a Proposed Standard.Friday, 18 December 2015