Questions tagged [web]
Questions about software that utilizes the web. Questions about software that runs off the web belong in Web Applications.
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How can I download an entire website?
How can I download all pages from a website?
Any platform is fine.
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I regularly see gstatic.com in the status bar, what is that domain? [closed]
Sometimes when I am browsing the web, among the hostnames that fly by in the statusbar is one that includes gstatic.com as the base domain. I can't navigate to http://gstatic.com to gain any more ...
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Why does my browser think that https://1.1.1.1 is secure?
When I visit https://1.1.1.1, any web browser I use considers the URL to be secure.
This is what Google Chrome shows:
Normally, when I try to visit an HTTPS site via its IP address, I get a security ...
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Is it possible to download using the Windows command line?
Without using any non-standard (Windows included) utilities, is it possible to download using the Windows command line?
The preferred version is Windows XP, but it's also interesting to know for ...
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Save a single web page (with background images) with Wget
I want to use Wget to save single web pages (not recursively, not whole sites) for reference. Much like Firefox's "Web Page, complete".
My first problem is: I can't get Wget to save background images ...
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Is it possible for many domain names to share one IP address?
Is it possible for many domain names to share one IP address? For example, www.xjtl.com, www.fmie.com, sdmfl.com, etc.
Hundreds of domain names share just one IP – when you do a DNS query for each of ...
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Why can't old PCs view modern sites? [closed]
The reason for this question is that many times clients, friends and parents ask me why their perfectly working old PC cannot be used online anymore.
I am looking for a good answer to those people ...
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Chrome: Selecting a link by doing search on its text
I'm trying to use my computer using the keyboard exclusively, without touching the mouse. When browsing the web it can get hard. I use Tab to select links, but there are often dozens of links on a ...
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Command line browser with js support
Does anybody know good command line browser with js support?
Ideally I need following ability:
some-browser http://example.com > ~/page.html
It means that cli browser download html, execute js ...
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What is the difference between Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod?
I've been successfully using Invoke-WebRequest to post requests to a REST-based API from PowerShell.
Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing https://my-rest-api.com/endpoint -ContentType "application/json"...
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Can a website in itself be dangerous?
I do understand that there is a risk of phishing, and that it downloads files that may cause harm when opened. But is there any risk of something bad happening when I simply open a website? In that ...
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What makes LastPass so secure?
I can't simply understand how using LastPass is secure. All an attacker need to do is to compromise the single LastPass account and then he has also compromised all other websites.
What's so good ...
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Do web browsers cache SSL certificates?
Do any web browsers cache SSL server certificates? For example, if I change the SSL certificate on a web server, will all of the web browsers pick up the new certificate when they connect via SSL, or ...
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How does HTTP become stateless?
HTTP is said to be stateless. Meaning, it doesn’t need to store information for the transmission of data.
But HTTP uses TCP, which is state oriented.
If that's the case, how does HTTP becomes ...
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Command-line CSS selector tool [closed]
Question
What tool (preferably for Linux) can select the content of an HTML element based on its CSS path?
Example
For example, consider the following HTML document:
<html>
<body>
&...
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In Microsoft Word how can I link to an image from the web which updates?
Is it possible in Microsoft Word (Word 2003 preferably) to insert an image from a url and have that image reloaded from url each time that document is opened?
The image itself is a map, and I'd like ...
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Get Firefox to ignore HTML 5 autocomplete tag setting?
With HTML 5 there is a new attribute called autocomplete. If it's set to autocomplete=off, then the browser does not store the password.
How can I override this setting, short of modifying the ...
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Surfing the web anonymously [closed]
What is the best, fastest, safest way to surf the web anonymously, and how much anonymity can you really achieve?
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How long until an old website visitor sees new web design?
Given that there are no cache settings in the HTML page, how long until an old website visitor see a new website design without force refresh?
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Lock/disable the zoom on Chrome Browser [duplicate]
Is there a way to disable/lock the mouse/touchpad zoom in the Chrome browser? I find myself accidentally triggering ctrl-wheel or touchpad-two-finger far more often than do intentionally.
As an ...
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Why do webpages sometimes appear as plain HTML before a refresh
this has started happening quite frequently since a week or so.
It is far from a major problem, but more of a annoyance.
Sometime, when I go on a webpage, the page seems to load as plain HTML. Then, ...
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How does the router know which device to send packets to? [duplicate]
my question does not concern how it moves through the internet, but how it moves through the router to a certain device. All devices connected to a router in a home network have the same external IP. ...
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How can I copy the link in Google without openning the link and the "Google stuff" in the URL? [closed]
I want to copy a link in Google without opening that link and without the "Google stuff".
When I use my browser by right-clicking the link and selecting Copy Link Location, it copies a very long link ...
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Why do different sites report Vivaldi's user-agent as different strings?
Site
Reported UA
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+my+user+agent&ia=answer
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.81 Safari/537.36 ...
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Link to Microsoft Outlook 365 Webmail email
I use Microsoft email at work. I use the webmail interface. (I think this is called Outlook 365 webmail). I notice that when you read an email a unique URL shows at the top of the screen. What I would ...
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Why is @ in email address sometimes written as [at] on webpages?
Why is @ sometimes in webpages written as [at]? Does it have any specific reason ?
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How to download Google Doodle for offline usage?
I used to play Google Doodle daily. Can anyone say where can I download Google Doodle? I'd like to play Google Doodle on my home PC offline.
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How to invert web pages colour scheme in Firefox?
I use to browse web in a dark room and would prefer if the backgrounds would be dark and text would be light instead of the opposite which is much more common. I suppose this can be achieved with some ...
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How to Google a question mark? [closed]
In a nutshell, I'd like Google to return pages where a question mark is present in the title.
My gut was to try something like:
allintitle: * "?"
However Google doesn't seem to like question marks ...
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Make chrome webpages available offline
I'm travelling today and want to do some work on the plane/train etc. I won't have access to the internet but there's a few web pages I'd like to have available for reference.
Is there anyway to ...
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How to get a perfect local copy of a web page?
No matter what browser I've tried (even Chrome), when saving a web page as local files, it's never quite exact. Lots of JavaScript & such seems to trip it up. I'm looking for some way to get a 100%...
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tail -f equivalent for an URL
I want to monitor the log file of my application which however doesn't work locally but on a SaaS platform and is exposed over HTTP and WebDAV.
So, an equivalent of tail -f that works for URLs would ...
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How to clear cached web fonts in Chrome
I'm trying to reproduce a bug where HTTPS Everywhere is preventing a web font from loading, but the web font seems to have been cached, preventing me from reproducing the bug. Neither Ctrl-Shift-R ...
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Lynx web browser usage [closed]
Does anyone still use the Lynx text-only web browser? It would seem useful for certain classes of low-end mobile devices, especially if one is billed per KB of data transfer.
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Is there a difference between a name server lookup and a domain name lookup?
I have seen both terms being used and I am not sure if there is a difference between them.
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Can you go to a website by typing the IP address into the address bar?
As I'm learning about networks and DNS servers and what not... I'm curious, can you go to a website by typing the IP address into the address bar?
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Mac firewall blocking nginx (port 80) from external side
I installed nginx using ports and started it with sudo. Accessing the nginx welcome page from localhost works perfectly, however accessing it from an external computer fails.
Doing an nmap on the ...
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Firefox setting to allow Web Notifications to stay open longer (or indefinitely)
By default, Firefox displays Web Notifications for about half a minute before automatically hiding them.
Is there a way to increase the amount of time that they are displayed before auto-hiding them?
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How can I quickly clear cookies for a specific site using Safari for Mac?
I know I can "Reset Safari". I know I can go to Cookies from Preferences and search for a site's cookies and delete those. But is there a faster/easier way to just clear cookies for one site (...
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Block all third party domains from web pages
When I'm browsing the web, I'd like to not be tracked by any third party services like Facebook or Google. For instance, if I visit somepage.com I don't want my browser requesting things from facebook....
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Prioritize bit torrent traffic
I would like to know how to prioritize traffic from various applications. Specifically I want to know if there is a way to give web traffic higher priority over bit torrent traffic.
OS : Windows XP
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How do I get a remind for emails I sent that remain unanswered after a period of time?
Here's a simple scenario I can't find any free solutions to:
I am sending an email to a client to which I want to get a response within 3 days.
If I get a response, I don't want to be bothered with ...
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How can I filter my internet connection based on content? [closed]
I have a WinXP PC that my children (4-14 years old) use but want to restrict some internet activity to prevent them from being exposed to some of the questionable and adult content that is available.
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Can I set up a website on a wifi router? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Hotel like Wifi manager
Sounds like a silly question, but bear with me..
If you go into Peet's Coffee and access the wifi, you're taken to a web page that requires a 4-digit ...
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What is the best cross platform keyboard based web browser? [closed]
What is the best cross platform keyboard based web browser? I have tried Conkerer only so far, but would like to try others if there are any.
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How to display "Comic Sans MS" in Linux?
I use "Comic Sans MS" font on my web page. The web page looks OK if I open it under Windows and MAC. But it does not work under Linux. How can I solve this problem? May be I can put the font on my web ...
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Unique Browser / User ID?
So I was wondering if it's possible to uniquely identify a user accessing a site?
Essentially, is there a stagnant/static id or code produced by a machine within a web request or within a browser that ...
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Add 'Save as webp' To windows 10, Right Click Context Menu
I would like to know if there is a way to add 'Save As WebP' image file format to windows 10 right click context menu. Through the registry. WebP images are a new file format that is designed ...
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Why does apache write its own process ID in httpd.pid?
I am new to Apache and debugging issues caused by it. I have come to understand that when Apache starts up, it writes its own process ID in httpd.pid in a human-readable format as explained here.
I ...
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Can a DNS domain name point to a folder on a server?
So I have a DNS domain name for my computer so that I can connect to it easily without remembering my IP address every time and it works great. I also have a website that is being hosted off my ...