Questions tagged [url]
A URL is a Uniform Resource Locator or Universal Resource Locator, a unique string of characters that identifies a reference to a resource on the internet. It can be used as a readable text address to redirect users to the internet resource.
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How do I copy the URL contained in the Internet shortcut with unicode characters? (command line for many Internet shorcuts)
The subject was in part studied, there is 8 years (here : How do I copy the URL contained in the Internet shortcut?)
I have thousand Internet shortcuts that I would like copy the URL contained to txt ...
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In Windows Terminal, detect URLs without an http://
Windows Terminal's Settings > Interaction has a checkbox "Automatically detect URLs and make them clickable." That detects only phrases that start with http:// or https://, e.g., https://...
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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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How can I get the source code of this strangely-behaving webpage?
Found some strange behavior, observed in both Firefox and Edge. The behavior does not change after closing all browser windows, restarting Firefox, and clearing all "YouTube" cookies.
In a ...
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With Insomnia, is there a way of going back to a previous request?
For clarification, I'm talking about the REST/URL entry app Insomnia, a Postman alternative, or a way of doing cURL requests easily.
So for my simple REST request needs, this is just pretty much what ...
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Custom Icons Displayed Incorrectly in URL Files
On Windows 10, I am saving all browser bookmarks as local URL files where I can use the built-in syntax below to pick the identifying icon from ICO files stored on the same drive.
[InternetShortcut]
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In Firefox, stop autocomplete when entering URL
I have been doing some local web development and have been using the web address http://127.0.0.1:8000 extensively. But for the life of me, when I enter this address into the URL bar, I can no longer ...
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Open a podcast via URL in a browser and enforce autoplay
Is there a way to open a podcast (via its URL) in a browser (say: Firefox) and, e.g. by adding something to the URL, force it to play right away when the podcast gets called?
For example use this URL
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IIS URL Rewrite troubleshooting
I'm using IIS to reverse proxy HTTP requests to a nodejs app running in the same machine.
URL rewrite and ARR modules are installed and the proxy setting checked. The URL matching seems good: if I ...
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Is there a quick way to clear URL Text Fragments' highlighting on the page?
For instance, when I follow a google link to the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definiteness#:~:text=In%20linguistics%2C%20definiteness%20is%20a,not%20(indefinite%20noun%20phrases).
It highlights ...
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How can I store a webpage title inside a Windows .url file?
This is a question about the .url file format:
How can I store the webpage title inside a Windows .url file ?
I was unable to find an official documentation of the .url file format anywhere on the Net....
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How to start Zoom muted from CLI
We have --url option to zoom (or zoom.exe) binary to start a meeting from the command line providing the meeting ID (confno) and meeting password (pwd) parameters as explained here:
Start a Zoom ...
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Block specific API request system-wide
I'd like to block system-wide the request to the Graph API getting profile images from Graph that is using this url:
https://tasks.office.com/COMPANY.onmicrosoft.com/GraphApiV1/GetUserPhotoAsync
I'...
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Google Chrome - Bookmarked pages don't show URLs anymore on dropdown. Just the bookmark folder. That's very annoying! Is there anyway to restore URLs?
Chrome and other Chromium based browsers (e.g. Microsoft Edge) have a new annoying "feature" that hides the URLs of bookmarked pages on the Address Bar dropdown. Incredibly annoying! This is ...
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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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