For some reason it seems like when you access the internet wirelessly you’re asking for trouble: invariably you’ll run into flakey WiFi connections and weird cellular data problems. There are are two problems that I frequently encounter, WiFi networks hijacking your requests so you log into their site first and cellular data ‘accelerators’ messing up […] Read more – ‘Working Around Bad Mobile Proxies’.
I’m often surprised how little web developers know about the HTTP protocol. I’m by no means an expert (feel free to correct what I write in the comments!) but I think I know a fair bit and I’ll outline the basics here. Why does it matter? What if you’re a frontend developer doing AJAX calls? […] Read more – ‘HTTP for Web Developers’.