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 do I use a proxy site's IP address directly inside the browser without having to visit it each time?
My ISP blocks sites here and there and I find myself regularly visiting sites such as proxysite.com..
Now I got the idea to visit a site that tells me my IP via the proxy site so I have the IP but now ...
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Browsing history windows 10
I need to find a website that I visited with chrome but unfortunately the history is not old enough because it was cleared after visiting this site.
Is there any another windows registry that contains ...
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403 forbidden error on local IIS static website
I've created a website on my local IIS with, at least for now, static html pages. Upon going to the url I get a 403 forbidden error.
I've followed the advice on this page:
https://sanuja.com/blog/...
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Can I use wildcards for blocking websites in hosts files?
I'd like to block websites in my hosts file with wildcards. I know that I can block websites by adding them like this
0.0.0.0 website.com
:: website.com
I'd like to block websites in regex. I ...
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working wtih multiple projects with many browser tabs [duplicate]
I work as a software developer and I usually have two or more projects on the go. During the day I will work on each of those projects but one at a time.
It involves having a lot of web pages open ...
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WhatsApp Web Login – web.whatsapp.com Can i use to Make Voice calls? [closed]
Since i was searching for Whatsapp Web I found that this is the only place where i can ask my Question . Actually I Want to Use Whatsapp web on my laptop and i want to use voice calls on that. Now my ...
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Is it possible to extract audiofiles directly from the web?
So this is what I want to do. I want to find two audio files for "fifteen" and "fifty" spoken by native speakers. Cambridge Online Dictionary provide excellent quality audio files suited exactly for ...
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How to copy a table from the web to my powerpoint
I hope the title is self-explanatory enough. Basically what I want to do is to copy a table from the web directly into the powerpoint that I am making. But the result is a bunch of texts with no table ...
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Is it possible to configure an IIS FTP server to have only direct file access and not allow access to view directories? [migrated]
For example I have a file at ftp://192.168.43.204/images/i.JPG which when entered into a web browser allows me to download the file. But if I enter ftp://192.168.43.204/images/ this lists all the ...
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Virtual backgrounds for any videoconferencing or webcam application
Is it feasible in Windows to enable (i.e. force) the use of a custom virtual background (via software) for any (all) videoconferencing applications that need to access to a webcam, for a webcam? (...
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Reading article doesn't require subscription when coming from google?
This is weird but must be something simple which yet baffles me.
I'm reading an article on the FT site. If I get to this article via google search, I can read it. If I get to the same article by ...
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Download/mirror webpage page with changing query parameter per site
Say I'd like to download a webpage (including CSS and images) that is using a single-path domain. It displays the current page depending on a query parameter (called "page").
Example:
`domain.com/...
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Change IP adress via web interface
How do I go about changing the IP address manually on a device running Linux(debian) via an web interface?
A script which will prompt for for IP change.
I have a web server running PHP on it.
Not sure ...
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Access web server externally
I have a JBoss server running on my macbook. I can access it via:
https://localhost:8443/appname/login.do
I would like to access it via my external IP address:
https://102.115.XXX.XXX:8443/appname/...
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SSL Certificate for Sophos and Portforward to website
If I buy a SSL Certificate for my website and install it to Sophos firewall. Will it be valid if the 443 port is forwarded to inside host (192.168.1.100:443)? Or should it be installed directly to the ...
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Q: How to force Firefox/Chrome to show all on-hover images in a page? [closed]
Several web sites, like online clothing stores, show their products by presenting a grid of pictures of their items, and by hovering with the mouse on each of such pictures, they switch to a different ...
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How to download an entire website after logging in?
I need to download an entire website for offline reading, but first I need to log in into my account there, since the contents wether you have account there or not are different. How do I do that? I ...
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Differentiating users from the common router
I'm trying to implement feature "views" for a web application (Like "views" of a video from YouTube). My implementation is it just look to the public IP address for each request and store it. But what ...
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When we enter bit.ly on url box how bitly.com open
I have a question about how bitly.com to bit.ly work. My questions is not about shorting url from a long url to short one. Like the service Bitly provide.
Suppose I have website with the domain name ...
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SSH tunnel from webpage
Is it possible to create a SSH tunnel by JavaScript from a webpage to access resources on a internal network? Do I need a jump box for this?
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Access Synology DS418play using *myddnshostname*.synology.me DDNS with quickconnect.to already working remotely
I've been struggling with this quite a bit! I am able to access my Synology DS418play remotely (i.e., not on my home network) by using myquickconnectid.us1.quickconnect.to.
However, after setting up ...
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How to block every image on a website?
I would like to be able to block every image on websites that suffer from severe clickbaity images so only text is shown. It would be nice if the solution could be dis/enabled easily in case I would ...
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I want to print screen only web address and bookmark bar with or without document [duplicate]
Can I print out only the web/url address along with bookmarks line and/or anything above text of document either by print screen or regular printing? If this question is understandable to anyone, ...
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How to redirect a url to a git repository?
I would like to embed a url in a bash script that tells my users where to download the necessary dependencies from my GitHub. However, I would prefer to display a url that originates from my own ...
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PDF.tk display field names on a pdf viewer [duplicate]
I am looking for a way to display a PDF with it's available fields as an overlay within a website. I'm currently useing PDF.tk but don't know if there is a feature to display the field names on a PDF. ...
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Is my UK ISP blocking a legitimate website?
UK ISPs are not well known by me for blocking websites for censorship other than blocking illegal sites such as child porn or torrent sites, yet when trying to access PubMed (Desktop Site or Mobile ...
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Trying to access my website results in an ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT
I took a break over Christmas from developing a webapp and I have came back today to find that I am unable to access my website in my browser, or connect to it by an FTP Client or ping my website's IP ...
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Is URL encoding guarranteed to output printable characters only?
I refer to the URL encoding used in Burp and in the browsers
Is URL encoding guaranteed to output printable characters only?
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Auto change Brackets changing tags
Is there a way, either through core or plugin, when changing an HTML opening tag, to also change the closing one? For example: If i have the following code:
Some Text
So right now, if I want to ...
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CPU vulnerabilities and web JavaScript [closed]
(using Linux desktop)
I am paranoid about Spectre/Meltdown/similar and the fact that JavaScript delivered through web browser can read whatever is in my RAM.
I have disabled all JS and when I enable ...
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On any websites search bar, is there a way to make it recognize special symbols such as the # sign?
I'm looking up flashcards on a website and predictably it ignores the # sign in C#, so my results are all over the place. Is there any kind of escape character voodoo that works with search engines ...
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Web application shared on Facebook Messenger. Can I make it to use Chrome?
I'm developing a PWA, so it's supposed to be extremely mobile friendly. And it's a social app so the user has to share URLs a lot. But whenever a URL is shared on FB messenger, if we click on the URL, ...
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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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How to setup a home-network with a webhost
I want to setup my home-network in a way that I can safely host a website on my raspberry pi.
If I've understood everything correct I can setup a DMZ with my raspberry and thus keep my home-network ...
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How to change the domain of URL without changing query parameters using Requestly?
My first use case would be to change the domain of a URL without changing the rest of the parameters using Requestly.
Specifically change from
https://web.whatsapp.com/send?phone=123&text=Hi
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Methods to monitor the duration of access from a computer to a particular website
I'd like to be able to log the duration for which a computer on my local network has YouTube videos playing. I want to use this to show a family member how much time they are spending watching YouTube,...
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Web App Errors - The resource cannot be found. Description: HTTP 404
Web App configured through IIS - ASP.net 4.6
This app reads/parses data from a SQL database (reporting server). Basically it generates reports based off of the data housed in SQL from front-end users ...
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ERROR While running SAP WEB IDE
Failed to load component for container container. Reason: Error: "false" is of type string, expected boolean for property "visible" of Element
This error shoots up when i run my web ide
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How could we use curl to send a GET request to an external API‽?
I am currently trying to use OneSignal REST API. I would like to use the GET method to invoke the View Apps operation:
I have tried to use PowerShell with the following command, using my own APP_ID:
...
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Websites keep thinking I'm from France
This happens mainly in Incognito Mode on Chrome and when using Invoke-Webrequest in Powershell. I always get redirected to French branches of the websites. I've looked up my IP and it does trace to my ...
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How I can change my GPU for web sites?
On this site, I can see that it detects my GPU.
Is there any way to change it to another GPU for the web-browser, or to make it undetectable without turning off JavaScript?
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how to stream web URL as video on YouTube android programmatically with youtube apis
how can i stream web url on YouTube using with youtube apis in my android app. just like check this video...
//video is not live at the moment, just stored as normal video..it is just for reference, ...
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Spring Tool Suite Select A Wizard issue
Latest version used:
Spring Tool Suite 4
Version: 4.3.2.RELEASE
Build Id: 201908130627
When try File | New | Other | Select A Wizard | and I enter : JSP
It used to be that the JSP option would ...
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Can't run Composer
I've just installed Composer and then tried to run it, but it fails:
prompt>composer
'""' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
prompt>composer -v
'""'...
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Is Skype, PDF Reader called web apps
I am confused about what is web apps?
Is responsive website(on desktop and mobile looking good) called web apps or Desktop apps like Skype, Notepad, PFD reader called web apps? Thank you
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How come pressing a certain key on the keyboard when working in a webpage changed my input editor's setting?
I'm translating English subtitles to Chinese for a client and I'm doing it directly on a webpage of the client's website using Firefox. According to the client's specification, when done with ...
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gRPC ERROR while running
I am creating a gRPC project and run, after several times running I am getting this error.
The error number (in the first line) is not consistent.
It will be "grpc-default-executor-0" one time, then ...
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Video Not Playing
The video here will not play, there is a video title and the the videos length but just black where the video should be.
Upon checking the developer tools > network tab in firefox and selecting the '...
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Copying specific field of a website in a word file with a single operation
I'd like to copy the field title of each occurences here in a word file with a single operation. Example of titles:
Bilocale piazza del Popolo, Piazza del Popolo, Roma
Trilocale via dei Banchi Vecchi,...
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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 ...
