Questions tagged [url]
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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Can I make Chromium or Firefox show true URL of a link in the status bar instead of some "final" one?
When I do a Google search like http://google.ru/search?q=superuser+stackexchange and then hover the first link with mouse in Chromium or Firefox, the browsers show https://superuser.com in the status ...
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Webpage displaying IP Address instead of the domain name
We have been working on a Tomcat web application which is now live. Everything is working fine except for the url. We have purchased the domain name at GoDaddy. The problem is as follows.
We are ...
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Difference between entering URL and clicking bookmark in the context of logging into Wi-Fi network
I have noticed that when I access some partially restricted WiFi network (and my Windows 7 displays information about additional login information that may be needed) then whenever I open Chrome, it:
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How to open a series of websites at once whose URLs differ only by a letter?
Suppose I have a website which has the attendance of every student at a school. The URL for that page where the attendance for the child with roll number 01 is something like this:
www.school.com/...
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Extract all URLs from CSV /Excel file and put it in a separate column
I have a csv file. When I open the csv file in Microsoft excel, I have a column.
Each cell in the column has number of paragraphs. each paragraph has many URLs.
I am looking to extract all URLs in ...
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Thunderbird - automatically convert URLs to links
I'd like Thunderbird to convert URLs to links automatically. I get hundreds of system-generated messages from a customer which contain unlinked URLs. The same URLs are converted to links automatically ...
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What is difference between Port Knocking and URL Knocking?
I know what is Port Knocking. But I read somewhere wrote URL Knocking. I didn't find any useful link about URL Knocking. Now I really want to know what is it and what is its difference with Port ...
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Redirect request for specific URL to other URL [closed]
I use the Google Hangouts Webapp (https://hangouts.google.com, not the extension) in Chrome on Windows 10. I also have a local Linux webdev machine that also runs a litely-configured DNSMasq instance ...
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How do I add a hyperlink with spaces in it using markdown?
Been trying to add a link on Trello to a bookmarked destination in a PDF using markdown.
I'm appending
#nameddest=this destination
to the end of my URLs to add a reference to a specific spot in ...
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Watching an iPad live stream on PC using VLC
I found a video streaming app on the App Store that lets you watch live streams of certain channels on your iPad, but because the iPad screen's quite small and the app doesn't support AirPlay ...
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Capturing new HTTP calls
I would like to capture system calls to open (http) urls. I'm not concerned with what the browser is doing internally. Rather, what URLs are attempted to be opened by explorer, or other programs (...
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NGINX: rewrite specific (variable) path only
I want to rewrite a url containing a specific variable path, for one specific user ip only.
http://domain.com/variable
Should become:
http://domain.com/variable/system
However, if there is another ...
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How to get the URL from a internet radio station so I can stream it from VLC
How do I could get the embedded URL from this internet radio? http://wp.1045radiolatina.com/escucha-en-vivo/
What I meaning by URL from where is the radio is streamed.
I have been trying to use URL ...
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Unable to block YouTube using Tenda Router
In my office, we have more than 20 workstations and one server. All workstations have Windows 7/Windows 8.1/Windows 10. And our server OS in Windows Server 2008 R2.
We have broadband connection from ...
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PDF is shown as binary text in browser instead of being downloaded
In Chrome, when I enter a URL to a PDF file, usually the browser's Save dialog opens to save the PDF file to my hard disk, for example:
http://www.pdf995.com/samples/pdf.pdf
Now I have found a PDF ...
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How to create a customized URL in Firefox (as in Chrome)?
Google Chrome has a very handy feature that I used to rely on a lot which basically lets you modify URL and map it into a string (keyword, character, letter etc) and also be able to pass arguments to ...
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Why can I access a file from a web server even though the URL doesn't exist?
WARNING: IM A TOTAL NOVICE
So i'm trying to understand how i'm able to access a PDF file from a website on say,
"www.website.com/Documents/Publications/2015/file.pdf"
But www.website.com/Documents ...
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Save a YouTube playlist of all videos from an uploader
The only way I know to automatically generate a playlist of all videos from an uploader is adding "&list=UL" at the end of url of any video from the uploader.
Usually I can copy a playlist into ...
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How can I save a URL to disk when viewing page source?
I'm accessing a website which has MP3 files in the source, which are played through the page. I want to save these MP3s to disk and I can do this by view-source, copy the URL to a new tab, then saving ...
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How do I debug an emoticon-based URL?
I came across this URL (NSFW) and need to convert this to puny code.
As an experiment, I'll paste this URL here, but not sure if this will save.
http://🐒🍵🍱🍋🎩🍣🍕🍊.🍕💩.ws/ (NSFW)
How can ...
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Get the streaming url for radio
Please help me get the streaming url for this radio. I've tried URL snooper and Firebug but has not worked.
http://jesusislordradio.snack.ws/ This is the radio link, into the website.
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Track if connection to certain URL gets established on Windows
I found with the analysis tool fiddler that a program establishes sometimes a connection to an extern server. Now, the goal is to track continuously in the background if there is a connection ...
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Parse url in windows script
In a windows bat file how do I parse this url
https://vimeo.com/library/courses/angular-series
to get the text 'angular-series' without the single quotes of course
Thanks in advance for your time
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Possible to block a URL (vs. IP address) using Windows Firewall?
Blocking an IP address with the Windows Firewall integrated into Windows 7 is reasonably straightforward.
But is there any way to block a URL (which can resolve to different IP addresses at different ...
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What does it mean when the directory stucture in a URN contains the domain name for a website?
I'm looking at a section of a website with the following URN/directory structure:
http://www.domainNameA.net/site/www.domainNameA.net/files/dynamically%generated%URN_539.docx
Why does the site have ...
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Is a terminating forward slash technically appropriate when specifying a URL?
Most web browsers will allow the user to specify:
https://superuser.com/
or
https://superuser.com
But which is technically appropriate, and why?
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Create a URL that opens a web page at specified text
I'm trying to figure out the correct URL syntax to open a web page at specified text, rather than at the top of the page. For example, on the page http://softwarebychuck.com/febe/, I would like the ...
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How to change the content of a given URL for a specific application?
For testing purposes, I need to change the contents of a given URL, to see how an application would react to it. Is there any way to do this on Windows?
Ex.: Make Foo.exe get <html><body>&...
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Is it possible to extract url from hyperlinks in excel if it's setup like this?
I have few hundred lines like this in excel file. I have tried to copy them one by one and it's very tiresome; so I am wondering if there is a away to extract the urls from all of them at once?
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How do I make links clickable in .log files?
I have a python script that logs URLs to be generated on the fly. I'd like to be able to cat logfile.log so that I can see the output of the log then be able to click those links rather than copy/...
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Is there anyway to block a specific URL in chrome without use of an extension
Are they are programs I can use to block specific url's in chrome without extensions. Extensions can be worked around easily by killing them in task manager and I was wondering if they were any pieces ...
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file:// links open in non-default browser on Windows. Why?
I set a new default browser and http:// urls open in it by default as they should. But I have some file:// urls and they open in the browser which previously was my default browser.
Why do file:// ...
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Open URL commands in a batch file causing problems with my URL link being opened
I have a rather peculiar issue. When I run a batch script to open a URL, all of the commands I have tried removes the characters %3 from my URL when sending the URL to the browser. Because of this, ...
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How to form FTP URL using absolute path for FileZilla server?
I need to write a file to FileZilla FTP server hosted in Windows operating system using absolute path. The path in which I need to write the file is C:\Test\Batch_File\count\. The home or root path is ...
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How to form FTP URL using absolute path in Windows?
I need to write a file to a FTP server hosted in Windows operating system using absolute path. The path in which I need to write is C:\Test\Batch_File\ . When I use relative path, I am able to write ...
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what is the meaning of "body" in a POST request?
I am new to PHP. I have a stupid question and need your explanation.
When I make a POST request with the cURL command-line:
curl -d "username=admin&password=admin&submit=Login" --dump-header ...
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How can I add several clickable links at once in Microsoft Word?
How can I add several clickable links at once in Microsoft Word?
E.g., I want to be able to convert the following
into
at once, i.e. without having to make each link clickable one by one.
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Access simple node.js app subdirs with nginx
I have a Ubuntu server with nginx installed on it and run a simple node.js app on port 3000.
I managed to configure nginx to serve me the app on /.
My structure looks like this:
mainFolder
app....
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Persistent bookmarks to particular Gmail accounts
At work, I like to keep two Gmail tabs open: one showing my personal account, the other showing my work account.
I created bookmarks for the two accounts by copying the URL. My personal account's ...
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netsh command to block URL from firewall
I am trying to block a URL with the firewall using netsh command, but without success. This is how I block an IP:
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Block URL" remoteip=<ip_to_block> dir=...
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How to get the actual URL a post/submit form redirects to?
As you may know when you submit data through a form you are actually accessing an URL with your submitted data included in the URL as the query strings.
For example,
if the form asks you to submit ...
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Excel - copy text from url to cell
I've got an excelsheet containing url's like so:
| column A | column B |
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| www.example.com/page1 |
| www.example.com/...
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Why does a URL say it's taken when it's doesn't acknowledge anything is there?
I'm looking at buying a URL before I do a trip to a third world country, and was wondering why I can't see a URL that appears to be registered, but the URL doesn't acknowledge existence when going to ...
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Chrome won't launch external application after clicking "start application" within "external protocol request" dialog
After clicking on a magnet link (for example one at: https://www.openoffice.org/distribution/p2p/magnet.html) Chrome will show the usual "external protocol request" dialog where it asks whether to ...
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Unable to get image from URL at website
When I go to this web-site - http://ships.carnivalentertainment.com/#ship/carnival-inspiration/cameras - and then right click on one of the two ship cams, and open image in a new tab- it works fine. ...
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download a url in bulk and name with the url
Is there a way to load a list of urls...download the content into a folder and the name of each download is the name of the url? I have about 1000 of these url's which are downloadable as pdfs.
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Prevent users from opening files via URL on lighttpd webserver
I have a website that uses JSON files to store settings in. Those files are located at a subfolder, so that it looks like /settings/settings.json.
If I type in the IP address on the local network ...
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Can I iterate over URL's to find images?
I have 52 files to retrieve and download, however, I've started manually entering the web URL. I was curious as to if I could find all the files in the webserver and simply download them, or iterate ...
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Cloak or mirror all links from one website to another?
I have 2 domains, e.g. www.domain1.com & www.domain2.com.
I want to redirect visitors from www.domain1.com to www.domain2.com
without the users knowing that they are going to www.domain2.com.
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Cannot install Cygwin on Windows 10
Trying to install Cgywin on my system I am getting no options at all of download sites
Does anyone know where I can find the download links to put in the boxes? I've looked but I can't see any that ...
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