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When Chrome wants to open an application, how do I get info about it?

For multi-factor authentication, I have a web page that wants to open an application. Is there a way for me to discover the value of the implicated link? (What is its scheme? What is its path? What ...
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How do I output content of specific file from zip achrive by `jar:` URL in Linux?

Given URL like jar:file:///path/to/some/file.jar/path/inside/zip/hello.txt, how do I uncompress and output specified file from specified archive automatically? A script using unzip or jar or 7z can ...
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Web browser does not hide root slash in URL between host & path

Thanks in advance for any help provided. Update: Tanks to Gerard H. Pille, Adrien replies and some logs investigations I've come to transforming question a bit. Now I firmly realize that final slash ...
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How to set up Firefox on Linux to select all the current URL string on click in the location bar?

How to get the same behavior of the URL address bar on Linux as on Firefox for Windows. I mean the whole URL gets selected by first click and unselected with cursor position where second click was ...
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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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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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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 - Where is the official package repository?

I'd like to install nano on a virtual machine installed with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4. There are no package repositories defined in YaST. What repo URL should I use? I can't find any on the ...
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Why would xbcd.com resolve to the localhost (127.0.0.1) on Linux (Ubuntu) and Android?

When 1) pinging xbcd.com I get 127.0.0.1 2) using a web browser and the URL xbcd.com leads me to the local webserver, if it exists. I've tried this on Ubuntu 14.04, multiple networks/DNS, as well ...
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Can symbolic links be used for website URLs?

I'm developing a new website to replace our old website. The URL the dev site is 11.22.33.44/~abc/ (not that IP exactly) because that's what Host Gator gave me to use. Once complete, I'll change DNS ...
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Is there a way to redirect certain URLs to specific web browsers in Linux?

I'm using Chrome as my default browser in Ubuntu 12.10. I need to use Firefox for business purposes (certain websites pertaining to my work only work with Firefox). Is there a way to force Ubuntu to ...
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Local URL Redirector

Is a free/open source software available where I can create simple aliases that will redirect to different servers? For example, if I were to type: "http://go/wp" it would redirect me to server1....
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Public/private git clone url?

Ok, I know how to use git for the most part, but I've just recently been playing with some github stuff and noticed the public/private url. May I ask what that is about? I know may not be advanced ...
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Accessing a URL on SSH without using a web browser

I would like to find a way to open a URL without using a web browser (which makes my computer system run very slow). Is there an easy way to achieve this on a command prompt using SSH to access ...
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Picasa:// links in Google Chrome (Linux)

When I go to Picasa Web to see another user's album, I can download pictures using Picasa with it. This launched a URL like picasa://downloadfeed/?url=http%3A... In Firefox, when I click this, I can ...
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Possible to catch URLs in linux?

There is a great program for windows (URL Snooper: http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/urlsnooper/index.html) that allows you to view all URLs being requested on the machine. Does any such ...
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