A URL is a Uniform Resource Locator or Universal Resource Locator, a unique string of characters that identifies a reference to a resource on the internet. It can be used as a readable text address to redirect users to the internet resource.

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Excel: URL with normal Text in a Cell

How can you add an HTML URL to a cell with normal text? I have a cell with normal text, but want to add a URL, but I don't want the whole cell to be the URL. i.e. Please go to this link: ...
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Using Excel to capture URL redirects

In Excel is it possible to have a list of URLs in column A and have a column B auto-populate with the URL of the page you get to if you click the link in Column A. (I would like to audit all the ...
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Insert a link in every page of a pdf document

How can I quickly insert a link in every page of a pdf file like this: http://www.example.com/something?page=#{pagenum} Where #{pagenum} is page number of the pdf. I have a document of 1000 pages ...
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Is it possible to enable javascript for a specific URL?

There are many users who have JavaScript disabled and deny to enable it even for some business applications. Is there any way to allow a user to enable a JavaScript for a specific URL in order to use ...
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Identify web pages with embedded video play from list [closed]

I have a list of thousands of web page URLs I would like to analyze to see when they contain a particular video. I need a tool which would download the source code from individual URLs listed in a csv ...
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How can I copy the URL of a Google search in Safari (after searching via address bar)?

When I enter www.google.com in Safari's address bar and enter a search term in Google's search box I can later copy the URL of that particular Google search from the address bar. However when I ...
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How can I forward a domain to a protocol on OS X

I wanted to know, if it is feasible on OS X, how to redirect all request to http://twitter.com/mentions to another protocol and url (twitter://mentions). I tried the hosts file without success.
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Why do My Google Search Results Not Visit Page? [closed]

Hardware: Ubuntu 13.04, firefox-trunk When I do a google search for "test search," the results returned don't actually link to the URL I thought it would. Instead of pointing to wikipedia, for ...
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KeePass wildcard in url

I started using Keepass yesterday and it's really useful however I cannot find a way to add wildcard into the url... I want one key being used on all url(s) that met the following rule: ...
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Capturing the video streams [closed]

I can play videos from a site they uses http://www.showmycode.com/?dc92e3bf989398c19b701be599cdfb68 this swf file to play but i want to get to directory of their source so that i can download all the ...
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Based on UserAgent routing the request to two internal sites mapped to different ports of Apache2 server

I have two sites hosted using VIRTUAL_HOST, if a request comes from a mobile "Useragent" the request should be forwarded to site 2, which is on port 81 without changing the URL in the browser, ...
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url containing query string in vlc

I am trying to open a network stream in VLC. The URL of the content is of the form http://192.168.0.1:80/content/recordings?dataid=myid&key1=value1&key2=value2 Whenever I append the query ...
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URL Scheme to send a Communicator message?

i would like to send a message in Communicator via URL. I have tried tel:+010101 It launches Communicator but wants to dial the number. I don't want that, i just want to compose a message, or ...
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What exactly happens step by step from when I type in a URL on my browser to when a page loads? [closed]

I was recently asked this at a job interview, specifically when I type facebook.com. I'm not quite sure what the interviewee was looking for exactly since I was applying for a programming position but ...
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How can I import several URLs to wget?

I use the following code to download "example1.com" with Windows. However, this code is limited to only one URL. Is it possible to import a txt file which contains several URLs instead? wget ...
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Apache rewrite downside?

Say I have my website stored on domain.com/mysite I add a rule in .htaccess to rewrite the URL to domain.com Is there any downside to storing the site in a subfolder and rewriting the URL like this? ...
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What kind of encoding is this?

I found some base64 encoded text in a compromised php file. When I decoded the base64 string, it was the following directive: ...
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Extension/Script/Program that will refresh page until a certain phrase/keyword is found or is not found?

Is there any program/extension that I can use with browser that will refresh a webpage and search for a certain phrase or text and then stop once the phrase is found or is not found. For example say ...
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What code to put in the URL to link it in a new tab?

I have a PDF file. Created from Kingsoft Presentation. I have images there, where I put hyperlinks. That is Ctrl+K then i put the link. When I converted it to PDF ang click the images, I want it to ...
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Access xampp outside localhost

I have created a xampp page on Windows server 2008. I am successfully able to load the xampp page and other php pages that I have created using localhost:8080/. Firstly : I want to know how can I ...
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How to not change path /link to /link.html with httrack or wget mirroring?

I created mirror of the site that contains same paths: example.com/contacts example.com/articles/3 ... But httrack (by default) creates files (and change urls): example.com/contacts.html ...
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Why are website URLs not case-sensitive? [closed]

What was the design choice here? Why are URLs designed to not be case-sensitive? For example: When I type "gaming.stackexchange.com", it will take me to Arqade.SE. If I type ...
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How do I copy hyperlinks in non-encoded format in Firefox?

When I copy the following URL from FireFox https://example.com/away.php?to=http://example.com/page/42 and then paste, I get link like: ...
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Tool for extracting “fragment URLs”? (E.g. www.example.com#section) [duplicate]

Does such a thing exist? E.g. a Firefox Extension (or other kind of browser script) where you can right-click on the subtitle in a section of any webpage you want to link to and it will give you the ...
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Map a URL to a local file in Windows

Is there a way to map a URL to a local file so that when IE sends a request for that URL it gets the content from a local file? For example: http://www.example.com/file.zip ---> C:\file.zip I'm ...
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Redirecting All Requests - Linksys Router

I currently have a Cisco WRV200 Wireless-G VPN router with RangeBooster, with that I've created an Access Point and set up a small Local Area Network. This Local Area Network obviously has no access ...
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Centralized IIS to redirect to other IIS servers

Basically what im after is to have a centralized IIS Server on the Local LAN where port 80/443 would be forwarded to from the router. Then through this server it can forward/redirect the requests to ...
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How do I configure custom URL handlers on OS X?

I've been reading a lot online about custom URL handlers / custom protocol handlers such as: Launching External Applications using Custom Protocols under OSX OS X URL handler to open links to local ...
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wget - Many URL's in .txt file - download and save as

I have 2000 URLs in excel file. The URLs are in the first column and in the second column there are names for the files downloaded from URL in the first column. I can copy that and paste to .txt file ...
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Finding URL of radio Flash stream

I'm interested in finding the true URL behind a flash player for a radio station. I'd even be happy if tunein.com played it, but I've checked (radio station is there but doesn't play). So I went to ...
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Adobe Reader changes spaces to %2520 [closed]

I received a PDF file with some Links in it. Apperently it changes the spaces in the links to %2520. (who uses spaces in urls????) The Link should look like this http://www.test.com/Test ...
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Finding the true URL of a Web radio stream [closed]

(I was originally going to ask how to do this with my computer, and then I realised I can't be leaving my speakers on all night, and apparently, they can't be controlled by the computer. Letting my ...
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Is there a chrome extension that can easily add a URL on a website? [closed]

For example, I just want a URL to videos.google.com on google's homepage, persistently.
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Coojah6, Autoit, windows 7

I was wondering if there's a way to extract the request header of a RTMP link from coojah6, or any other program, automatically using autoit, and save on a file .xml
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How do I automatically change the VERY END of a webpage url in chrome on certain urls?

So there's this website called puu.sh. When you press the shortcut determined on instillation (in my case Ctrl + Shift + A), you get a grey box that you can drag around with your mouse. You select an ...
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validating / sanitizing google results for posting online

i sometimes want to link to a search result page of Google services. but the address bar URL is "dirty" ...
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Is Windows caching the URLs of internet shortcut files?

Let's say I have links for two searches on the web: "search 1" and "search 2" on Google. The URLs would then be: https://www.google.com/#q=search1 https://www.google.com/#q=search2 I create ...
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How to forward urls without ports from one machine to urls with ports on another machine

I'm new to sys administration, so I play some things virtually at home. And so, I have one virtual linux with two nodejs applications running there. They listen on two different ports. Lets call the ...
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Is there a way to define how Chrome's search bar immediately recognizes initial letters in a search? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I create a URL shortcut in Chrome? Example: When I type "m", immediately, "mail.google.com" fills out, so I can just do 'm' followed by 'enter' to go to gmail. ...
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Find URL of Flash radio stream

I'm trying to use Firebug to get the stream URL of this site, so I can play it using VLC. Does anyone know how to? Thanks. http://www.magic983.com/listen/
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How to get multiple URL redirection details?

I have some affiliated links, by clicking the link it redirects to another link. It might be up to three levels. abc.com/?affid=12/www.xyx.com --> xyz.com?ref=23 --> and finally ...
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Why does Firefox use the “chrome://” protocol / schema in URLs?

When I want to configure an addon, for example Ghostery, the tab shows a URL like this one: chrome://ghostery/content/options.html What does it mean? Does it have something to do with the Chrome ...
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How can I find out which page links to a given URL? [closed]

I have an URL, say this web page: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechDays/TechDays-12-Basel/Keynote-The-great-8-Windows-and-Windows-Phone How can I find out which other pages on the internet link to ...
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Shortcut to open URL from clipboard

I want to create a shortcut that opens links from the clipboard. I frequently switch browsers and it's very annoying to copy/paste hundreds of URLs from one to another. I have created a shortcut to ...
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Clicking of URLs outside of browser does not open up

Nothing happens when I click on a URL outside of a browser. Chrome is my default browser but it does not do anything if I click on a link in e.g. Skype. What can cause this? HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http ...
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Hash tag on URL gets stripped off upon clicking link on Windows Mail

In our newsletter we have a link with this URL: http://www.someshop.com/index.php?a=some_name#same_page_anchor This works in Gmail and Yahoo. However, in Windows Mail, when we click the link, the ...
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Auto-extract updated URLs from a webpage into a txt file

I'm looking for a way to auto-extract URLs into a clipboard (.txt file) from a webpage that contains newly updated links, without my intervention. Currently I'm using Update Scanner 3.1.10 add-on ...
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Firefox adding my own URL as my search engine? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to add a custom search engine to Firefox? How can I add my own URL (with a %s as the search item) as one of the search engines in Firefox? Right now, it only allows ...
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When I enter an address with https, Firefox (sometimes) changes it to http

What I did: I visited https://en.wikipedia.org./wiki/Main_Page (yes, there is a dot after TLD) I got an SSL error (because the cert isn't valid for the domain name with dot) I visited ...

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