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Why does my browser think that https://1.1.1.1 is secure?
The GoDaddy documentation is mistaken. It is not true that Certification Authorities (CAs) must revoke certificates for all IP addresses… just reserved IP addresses.
Source: https://cabforum.org/...
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Why does my browser think that https://1.1.1.1 is secure?
English is ambiguous. You were parsing it like this:
(intranet names) or (IP addresses)
i.e. ban the use of numeric IP addresses entirely. The meaning that matches what you're seeing is:
intranet (...
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Can a website in itself be dangerous?
Web browser are programs that can have vulnerabilities just like any other software.
This means that simply browsing a web site with a web browser that has a remote code execution vulnerability could ...
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Why does my browser think that https://1.1.1.1 is secure?
Looks like the Certificate Subject Alt Name includes the IP address:
Not Critical
DNS Name: *.cloudflare-dns.com
IP Address: 1.1.1.1
IP Address: 1.0.0.1
DNS Name: cloudflare-dns.com
IP Address: 2606:...
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What is the difference between Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod?
You can find out by decompiling the Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility assembly.
Basically, Invoke-WebRequest does not deal with parsing the data all that much. With -UseBasicParsing, it does some ...
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Why do different sites report Vivaldi's user-agent as different strings?
Because the browser sends different User-Agent strings to these websites. There's no real detection going on – the website literally just gets the User-Agent field as a string from an HTTP request ...
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How long until an old website visitor sees new web design?
How long before a website visitor sees a new website design without force refresh?
Assumption: There are no cache settings in the HTML page
It depends on the browser cache settings.
Note:
The ...
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DNS domain which resolves names to local IP addresses
Actually there is Xip.io which does exactly what you asked for: http://xip.io/
For example 192.168.1.128.xip.io resolves to 192.168.1.128.
EDIT 2021-07-01
As xip.io seems to not be available anymore, ...
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Is there a difference between a name server lookup and a domain name lookup?
Is there a difference between a name server lookup and a domain name lookup?
A Name Server lookup retrieves the IP address associated with a Domain Name.
A Domain Name lookup (also called whois) ...
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How web browser determines when to use IPv4 or IPv6 to connect to the destination?
First: How you resolve a hostname has nothing to do with what address you can resolve it to. DNS servers are perfectly capable of returning IPv6 AAAA records when asked via IPv4, and vice versa.
As ...
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Link to Microsoft Outlook 365 Webmail email
So I have found the following ways after much trial and error this morning:
Solution 1 - Create URL using the ID from email URL
Firstly for this to work you need to turn off conversation mode in OWA,...
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Can a website in itself be dangerous?
If you take a look at this and previous generation of video game consoles (PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series), the web browser is what is used to exploit bugs in the firmware to gain access to ...
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What is the difference between Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod?
systemcenterautomation.com did a blog post about this. The conclusion:
Invoke-RestMethod is much better at dealing with XML and JSON results,
while Invoke-WebRequest is better at dealing with ...
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Firefox setting to allow Web Notifications to stay open longer (or indefinitely)
In Firefox, notifications are hardcoded to close after 20 seconds. To allow notifications to stay open indefinitely until the user closes them, toggle the dom.webnotifications.requireinteraction....
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Link to Microsoft Outlook 365 Webmail email
You can get an email URL by:
Right-click the email and/or thread and "Create Task"
Switch to To-Do / Tasks (bottom left of OWA interface menu, checkmark icon)
Click on the task
Right side ...
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Can a website in itself be dangerous?
Websites could be dangerous if browsers have vulnerabilities. But even if there aren't any vulnerabilities in your browser, they could be dangerous depending on your definition.
They could exploit ...
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Command-line CSS selector tool
https://github.com/ericchiang/pup has a CSS-based query language that conforms closely to your example. In fact, with your input, the following command:
pup "body > div.content > table > ...
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Is it possible to download using the Windows command line?
You can use (in a standard Windows bat):
powershell -command "& { iwr http://www.it1.net/it1_logo2.jpg -OutFile logo.jpg }"
It seems to require PowerShell v4...
(Thanks to that comment and this ...
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Have I finally gone insane, or does the "sign up" page of BitMitigate redirect to 127.0.0.1?
does the “sign up” page of BitMitigate redirect to 127.0.0.1?
Yes. curl 'https://bitmitigate.com/user-panel/sign-up.html' returns:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
&...
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Add 'Save as webp' To windows 10, Right Click Context Menu
This can be done by downloading the official cwebp command line encoder from Google, and then adding its bin folder to your PATH (environment variable). Then, create a batch file that takes a file and ...
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How to get a perfect local copy of a web page?
You need to download the entire website with Httrack (you need to set it so it doesn't download external JavaScripts)... just run it, then see the directories which downloaded, run Httrack again and ...
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Chrome: Selecting a link by doing search on its text
I have used vimium.
By installing its extension in chrome, you will be able to click any links on the page with shortcut f
For more information, you can refer to https://vimium.github.io/
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tail -f equivalent for an URL
I answered the same question over here with a complete shell script that takes the URL as it's argument and tail -f's it. Here's a copy of that answer verbatim:
This will do it:
#!/bin/bash
file=$(...
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How can an online store recognize me - MAC addres? Something else?
Browser and device fingerprinting let web sites identify if different requests are coming from the same browser or device.
Web sites can gather a lot of data from your device, for example:
Browser (...
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Add 'Save as webp' To windows 10, Right Click Context Menu
Install the free and open source tool of
File Converter.
Once installed, it appears in the context (right click) menu.
To use, select one or several file(s) in Windows File Explorer, right-click on
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Unique Browser / User ID?
You can be identified by what's called
Device fingerprint,
which in your case is Browser Fingerprint.
While the IP address is not a good identification, a combination of other factors
that your ...
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Mac firewall blocking nginx (port 80) from external side
Been trying to figure this out for ages, eventually doing the following in the terminal:
$ sudo /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --remove /usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.10.0/bin/nginx
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In Microsoft Word how can I link to an image from the web which updates?
In MS word 2013 (using gdrive picture).
If you want to add an email but you don't want to update the image (when the hosted email will change) go to insert tab, click on pictures, simply past the url ...
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Mac unable to browse to any websites hosted at a single IP
I managed to dig a bit further, and found the following entries in the system.log:
acwebsecagent[257]: Connection : Failed to connect to XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:80. Code : 60
Jul 29 12:53:47 zzzz.local ...
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How to copy images from websites that zoom the image when mousing over them?
In Firefox go to any product page at the AliExpress website and select a product.
Right-click the image and select Open Link in New Tab.
Switch to the new tab and you will see a large product image, ...
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