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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Cross platform bookmark files
I spend my day at work on Windows XP and at home on OS X. I use Firefox on both. I have certain folders sync'ed where I like to drag and drop links to look at later. On XP the link files are saved as ....
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How Do I Disable URL Pre-Pending in the FireFox 3 Title Bar When Opeing A New Window With JavaScript?
For (understandable) security reasons, Firefox does not allow JavaScript to open a new window without the address/location bar AND without pre-pending the page's URL to the title in the title bar.
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Firefox Addon that recognize url and transform it to a Link
I'm looking for an Firefox addon that recognizes URLs on a webpage that are plain text and transform it to a real link.
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Log URLs that Flash calls?
I want to log any URLs that are being called from Flash on my Mac. Any suggestions on tools that I could use? A nice TCP logger would work.
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How do you manually add a RSS feed to IE8?
I need to add a RSS feed manually to IE8 (i.e. not using the orange button). I just want to be able to input the URL.
Edit: While my specific problem has gone away, this question still needs an ...
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m.www.yahoo.com - an illusion (subdomain subdomain)? or something stranger
I just noticed this URL as I checked my yahoo account (secondary, yay gmail). I've never seen a URL like this with a string before the www. Is this an illusion (the www is a subdomain that just ...
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Can I launch URLs from command line in Windows?
Can I launch URLs directly from the command line in Windows?
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Curly braces in a URL
Often I have came across URLS like the following:
http://www.isthisahacker.com/{7B643FB915-845C-4A76-A071-677D62157FE07D}.htm
Do the curly braces in the URL above indicate some kind of attempt to ...
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How can I disable the file:// protocol in Firefox?
How to disable file:// protocol in firefox
I want the users not to browse the local files on the machine.
I already disabled SaveAs and OpenFile functions.
I want user not to browse the local files ...
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Local links ( in browsers ) on *nix systems
On Windows I can access files directly from the browser ( or at least I have it configured currently, forget if it was native like this ) with the file:// protocol, so I can access files from say the ...
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Is Python only for building backends in making websites?
I have seen no website built by Python such that the url of the website contains .py at the end. I have seen only index.html and index.php, but sometimes nothing as in SO. I know that you can hide the ...
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How to download a URL as a file?
A website URL has "hidden" some MP3 files by embedding them as Shockwave files, as follows.
<span class="caption"><!-- Odeo player --><embed src="http://odeo.com/flash/...