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Web Browsers/Web Servers Leftovers

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 12, 2023

=> Linux Devices and Open Hardware | Programming Leftovers

Firefox 116 on POWER

=> ↺ Firefox 116 on POWER

Firefox 116 is out with user interface improvements (notably a sidebar switcher), faster HTTP/2 uploads, and some initial UI rework for changes to how recently closed tabs are handled. [...]

Browsers barely care what HTTP status code your web pages are served with

=> ↺ Browsers barely care what HTTP status code your web pages are served with

Back when I wrote an entry on issues around the HTTP status code for a web server's default front page, I said in passing that the HTTP status code mostly doesn't matter to browsers. More exactly, the status code for a web page mostly doesn't matter to people looking at web pages in a browser (this has come up before). This is well known in some circles and probably surprising in others.

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