Murphy's law in practice

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The photo comes from MSI website

You must have heard about Murphy's law saying that Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. We can also add ...at the least expected moment or ...at the worst possible time. Some time ago I had quite a busy evening i.e. I had to write some urgent e-mails etc. Everything was ok until suddenly my computer (MSI GE60 2OE, Windows 10) went crazy.

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Did you know that about HTTP?

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Titile: Chapel of the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok, Source: own resources, Authors: Agnieszka and Michał Komorowscy

Recently, when answering a question on stackoverflow.com, I've learned an interesting thing about HTTP protocol. Actually currently it seems to be obvious to me ;) What I'm talking about? Well, initially I thought that if you send GET HTTP request in order to download a specific URL, then in a response you will get an entire page/file. In other words I thought that it's not possible to read the specific part of a page/file. However, it turned out that it's quite easy.

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