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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firefox returns odd results for file:/// or file:///tmp
Not long ago (a few months at most), Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 was able to open files in /tmp, using a file:///tmp/xxx link. Now these links show the files as unavailable.
When I try to use a file:/// ...
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In a website, when clicking an URL in it, it will open a new tab and inject a redirect. How to view the URL redirect trace in browser?
When I click a non-Facebook link in Facebook, it will be opened in new tab and be redirected to:
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fexample-url-shortener.com%2Fslug%3Ffbclid%3D...&h=...&...
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Using requestly replace string to reroute a local call to a live test environment
I am using the replace string rule to try and replace a content endpoint call within a test environment and replacing it with my localhost url to be able to use live data from an endpoint to test in ...
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What is the maximum length of a domain name?
According to domain name specifications RFC 1035:
2.3.4. Size limits
names 255 octets or less
According to the SMTP RFC 5321:
4.5.3.1.2. Domain
The maximum total length of a domain name ...
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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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how to block http://tplinkwifi.net/ url
let's say we are on windows 7, and we want to block a specific URL from getting resolved. one would assume to throw it into HOSTS file and job is done, but for some reason this does not work, so the ...
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Edge can not visit Non-SSL url properly
When several months ago after "Edge" browser on my Win10 X64 machine updated itself to latest version, I began to meet a problem when visiting some websites in my favorites, at first I could ...
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How to get a list of all URLs in history starting by some prefix in Firefox?
When I type the start of an URL in Firefox, I get an auto-completion of maybe 10 choices.
But on some websites like professional web apps, you may have 30 or 50 links of interest to you and if it ...
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How can I download a list of urls but filter by pdf content?
I have a large list of links to PDFs. I'd like to download all the PDFs that contain a certain keyword. Is there software that will allow me to input a large list of urls for download but then only ...
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How to make hyperlinks clickable in Bluefish text editor to open the URL in a web browser?
In the Bluefish text editor, how does one make hyperlinks (URLs) clickable so they open the URL in a web browser?
I've looked through all of the application's options, and skimmed the manual, and I'm ...
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How to make postman works with urls containing a dot between slashes (current dir)
Problem
Getting a URL that contains /./ inside from a redirection.
I run a GET {{base}}/main-menu. The response is 302 with a redirect to ./menu
Postman is trying to GET {{base}}/./main (with the ./ ...
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Trying to use regex to match the "?si=" on YouTube share links
I want to match the ?si= on the end of YouTube links using Regex so that I can filter submitted links to remove the ?si= and what comes after.
I want to exclusively match that ID, and not anything ...
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How to use vnc:// links in windows and tightvnc
I woulk like to register vnc:// protocol to launch tightvnc link directly from the browser.
Link example:
vlc://192.168.0.1
Right now I wrote in the registry this:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
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Why Can My Browser Access Files via `file://127.0.0.1/c$/` but not `file://127.0.0.1/c:/`?
I use Edge on MS-Windows; I didn't change any advanced network configurations.
I tried to access local files in three ways:
file://localhost/c:/ works
file://127.0.0.1/c:/ doesn't
file://127.0.0.1/c$/...
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How is the URL "ai." parsed?
I found that browsing http://ai. returns a web page.
This is no longer a public website. If you have come here you are at
the wrong place. You probably want to go to one of these sites:
whois.nic.ai ...
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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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