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The comment that this is supported by several webservers is strange, Apache is a continuation of NCSA which developed the .htaccess technology. So, this is mainly an Apache (see references) technology; in the top 5 used Web Server Softwares, Apache and LiteSpeed would be the only two that support it, and LiteSpeed (a fork of apache?) which is a ...
A .htaccess file is often used to specify security restrictions for a directory, hence the filename "access". The .htaccess file is often accompanied by a .htpasswd file which stores valid usernames and their passwords. [5] URL rewriting Servers often use .htaccess for rewriting long, overly comprehensive URLs to shorter and more memorable ones.
This class of status code indicates the client must take additional action to complete the request. Many of these status codes are used in URL redirection. [2] A user agent may carry out the additional action with no user interaction only if the method used in the second request is GET or HEAD. A user agent may automatically redirect a request.
.htpasswd is a flat-file used to store usernames and password for basic authentication on an Apache HTTP Server.The name of the file is given in the .htaccess configuration, and can be anything, although ".htpasswd" is the canonical name.
The project is jointly managed by a group of volunteers located around the world, using the Internet and the Web to communicate, plan, and develop the server and its related documentation. This project is part of the Apache Software Foundation. In addition, hundreds of users have contributed ideas, code, and documentation to the project. [64 ...
Wikidata is a sister project of Wikipedia; it is a collaboratively edited knowledge base. Part of this project is to centralize the interlanguage links for all the Wikipedia projects. The "Languages" list for a page contains a list of links to a version of that page in different languages.
mod_wsgi is an Apache HTTP Server module by Graham Dumpleton that provides a WSGI compliant interface for hosting Python based web applications under Apache. As of version 4.5.3, mod_wsgi supports Python 2 and 3 (starting from 2.6 and 3.2). [1] It is an alternative to mod_python, CGI, and FastCGI solutions for Python-web integration. It was ...
If a redirect target is not sufficiently validated by a web application, an attacker can make a web application redirect to an arbitrary website. This vulnerability is known as an open-redirect vulnerability. [26] [27] In certain cases when an open redirect occurs as part of an authentication flow, the vulnerability is known as a covert redirect.