How Using the CDN and WAF Can Impact SEO
Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is important to your site's relevancy. It reflects how easy it is for search engines, like Google, to find your site.
Each search engine uses bots to crawl websites and gather information about them. The search ...
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Chrome Ending Support for HTTP requests
On February 6, 2020, Google announced they would be starting to ending their support of HTTP pages in the Chrome browser. Google is working to make sure by October of 2020 Chrome will have completed its plans to stop supporting HTTP pages. With Ch...
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The HyperText Transfer Protocol provides a few authentication methods within the protocol. Due to the implementation, these are not often used for a typical user login as they are not considered user friendly, but can be handy with automation.
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The HTTP/1.1 specification defines a number of methods that indicate the action that a given resource should take upon receipt of a request. These are also known as 'HTTP Verbs'.
Requests can be idempotent, meaning that they can be executed multi...
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How-To Validate Domain Ownership
Occasionally, customers will receive an error message "this domain is already in use" when trying to add a domain on the StackPath platform. StackPath support may ask you to provide proof of ownership for the domain before it can be made available...
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What is X-Forwarded-For? Learn all about this technology and how to implement it correctly while StackPath provides you with resolution to common queries. The StackPath CDN and WAF automatically include an x-forwarded-for header, for debugging, st...
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How To Convert .pfx to a .crt/.key file
Stackpath shows you step by step how easy it is to convert a .pfx to a .crt/.key file. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a form of encryption that uses Certificate Authorities to validate a safe connection between systems. At StackPath, you can upload ...
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How-To Flush Your Local DNS Cache
Most major operating systems will cache DNS results for specific domains to greatly enhance DNS lookup times. Occasionally, an OS will cache bad results which will in cause incorrect content to be returned or not return anything at all. Luckily mo...
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How To Clear Local CRL and OCSP caches
What is local CRL and OCSP and how do you go clear cache on Microsoft Windows &+ or Apple OX X (10.6 or newer)?Sometimes, an SSL provider (Certification Authority) will revoke a certain SSL certificate from the chain of trust, but the certificate ...
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Using StackpathCDN with Web Fonts
When using web fonts with @font-face or other CSS3 methods, browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer may refuse to embed the font when it’s coming from a third party URL because they perceive the font as a security risk.The recommended way to a...
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Using the API to Pull StackPath IP Blocks
Whitelisting StackPath's IP blocks ensures StackPath edge servers can pull data from your origin server. Needing to whitelist StackPath's IP's in firewalls and security systems is the most common reason behind 502 errors.
This article will show yo...
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Cache busting is the process of uploading a new file to replace an existing file that is already cached. This is useful because the cache will often take a long time to expire from all of its various locations and cache busting properly ensures th...
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