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How to create URI to open hardcoded text/plain content in web browser?
First question, is it even possible to write a URI (presumably http://) that will make a browser display some plaintext content, where the content is hardcoded into the URI itself (aka not served by a ...
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Block specific URLs / URIs in browser, like the file:// protocol and other from being visited - How to set Browser policies
How to block specific Uris or Urls in a browser? For example I don't want the file:// protocol can be visited or other specific locations by the user. Can I also add other policies and if so, how?
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Some custom URI schemes not working on Edge
I've discovered the concept of Custom Protocol Handlers lately and have been using it to access some desktop (.exe) applications through my browser (which is Edge).
I've registered many of my apps to ...
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Cannot create desktop shortcuts to Windows URI
I am trying to create a desktop shortcut to a windows URI, e.g. ms-settings:privacy. Sites such as https://winaero.com/windows-11-uri-commands-to-launch-apps-directly/#Create_shortcut_for_URI_command ...
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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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Opening .txt file from URL/URI via browser
I need some assistance in a project regarding opening a .txt file from URL\URI via browser
I have created below key in the registry:
reference snap 1
reference snap 2
So now whenever I try to open ...
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Chrome, how to disable new copy paste URL converter
Example, in the newest version of Chrome on Windows type in: http://example.com/api/<test> or copy paste it from here into the URL. Then hit enter. After that copy it with CTRL + C from the URL ...
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Where does “about:blank” and other similar keywords come from, and why are they needed?
I know about:Tabs goes to the New Tab page, and about:blank goes to a predictably blank page.
But how and why did this function come about? And are there other keywords that come after about: with ...
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How to URI Encode pipe character in Firefox?
Is there an add-on or an about:config setting to force Firefox encode it's URL?
Example
In Firefox, typing the following and hitting go/enter http://www.example.com/go|here/again, I would expect it ...
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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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File URI with username and password in Explorer
How to specify file URI with user name and password in the (Windows File) Explorer, please?
Something like file://domain\user:password@host/dir/file. I need to specify domain to be equal host name, ...
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Why does Firefox use the "chrome://" protocol / schema in URLs? [duplicate]
When I want to configure an addon, for example Ghostery, the tab shows a URL like this one:
chrome://ghostery/content/options.html
What does it mean? Does it have something to do with the Chrome ...
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In a URL, what is // for? [closed]
Typically, when I see //, it's usualy following some protocol prefix like http: or ftp:. I have never seen it placed anywhere else. For example,
http://www.google.com/
is a typical URL.
However, ...
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Full URI to a file on another machine in our local network?
On our small-business Windows XP network, I have a file in f:\MyDir\SubDir\text.doc
What would be the URI for that file while I'm on another machine.... if all I knew was that machine's IP address, ...
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How is http://d§.cc/ a valid URL?
While browsing online today, I came across the following URL:
http://d§.cc/
Somehow it works. In Firefox 3.6/Mac, the browser seems to interpret the URL as:
http://xn--d-jca.cc/
In Safari 5/Mac, ...
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