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An .htaccess ( hypertext access) file is a directory -level configuration file supported by several web servers, used for configuration of website -access issues, such as URL redirection, URL shortening, access control (for different web pages and files), and more. The 'dot' ( period or full stop) before the file name makes it a hidden file in ...
Configuration files and operating systems Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Across Unix-like operating systems many different configuration-file formats exist, with each application or service potentially having a unique format, but there is a strong tradition of them being in human-editable plain text, and a simple key–value pair format is common.
The Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) Protocol is a method used by clients to locate the URL of a configuration file using DHCP and/or DNS discovery methods. Once detection and download of the configuration file is complete, it can be executed to determine the proxy for a specified URL.
Special .browser files are available for free download to handle, for instance, the W3C Validator, so that it properly shows standards-compliant pages as being standards-compliant. Replaces the harder-to-use BrowserCaps section that was in machine.config and could be overridden in web.config in ASP.NET 1.x. config: 1.0
The Application tab interacts with the configuration file of the application and not with the ASPNETDB database. Application settings are created as objects and inserted as name-value pairs in the web.config file.
A proxy auto-config ( PAC) file defines how web browsers and other user agents can automatically choose the appropriate proxy server (access method) for fetching a given URL . A PAC file contains a JavaScript function FindProxyForURL(url, host). This function returns a string with one or more access method specifications.
The metabase is an inheritable, hierarchical database that allows for configuration of HTTP / HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, and NNTP at the server, the site, or the folder or file level. Different versions of IIS use different formats; prior to IIS version 6 this was always a proprietary format, whereas with 6.0 and later the data is stored in XML files.
A web application firewall (WAF) is a specific form of application firewall that filters, monitors, and blocks HTTP traffic to and from a web service.By inspecting HTTP traffic, it can prevent attacks exploiting a web application's known vulnerabilities, such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), file inclusion, and improper system configuration.