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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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Unable to access internal websites that starts with HTTP when I run powershell command to check website status
I'm getting "Unable to run/search" for the status for http://example.com/ but for those that starts with HTTPS:// has no issue, I am getting Status: 200 with OK. What I need to add on my ...
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names of different http schemes
I am wondering what the different names are for these things:
localhost (host?)
localhost:3000 (address?)
http://localhost:3000 (url base?)
http://localhost:3000/xyz ...
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Website with multiple redirects
I am trying to understand the flow of HTTP Headers during website redirection. In case of a single redirect, the 301 Permanently Moved or similar status is straight forward. In case of websites which ...
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Expand a tiny URL to a full URL with redirection in Apache
I have an application setup for expanding a tiny URL. Once a hit is received from the browser, it will create a request in my Apache load balancer running on my domain. Let's assume my domain is "...
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Error accessing a website when the URL does not contain 'www'
Why does the first link work, but the second one doesn't?
1. http://www.gifgifgifgifgif.com/gif/11740.gif
2. gifgifgifgifgif.com/gif/11740.gif
For the second link I get an error from my ISP:
http://...
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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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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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Decoding HTTP GET parameter in Wireshark
I am capturing HTTP GET traffic with Wireshark and I have plenty of URLs that contain "cryptic" URL-encoded data.
I'd like to
see the URI split into the individual parameters
see the parameter ...
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Why URL with port number other than 80 gets HTTP traffic?
An example of URL that links to a web hosting control panel:
http://example.com:3500
HTTP is port 80. Why does the URL use port 3500? Is it port 3500 or port 80?
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How to get server IP from given url
Can anyone tell me how to get the IP of a server, for example:
https://capi-eval.signnow.com/api/document/
I need it for curl call, which might be slow because of dns.
I can't get ip with ping or ...
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How to get URL of a file in an HTTP GET request?
There's a web server that I access regularly by making an HTTP GET request like so: http://www.example.com/index.php?file=12&hd=0
It returns an OK response with a content type of video/x-flv and ...
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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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What are the components of an HTTP URL and what role do they have in an HTTP Request?
Given this link: http://clk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=113177&a=89693&g=189788889&url=http://track.adform.net/C/?bn=8997990;cpdir=http://www.tele2.se/mobilt-bredband.html?utm_source=...
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What are the common URL parameters I can use against an RSS feed? [closed]
I am trying to get a list of query parameters used in common RSS feeds.
For example , if I was to query an rss feed as http://www.anySite.com/articles/ as an rss and I want the first 5 articled how ...
