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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Whenever I try to ping some website URL, the IP address it finds is always 127.0.0.1 (loopback IP)
Whenever I try to ping some website URL, the IP address it finds is always 127.0.0.1 (loopback IP)
There are many websites where this happens such as mega.co.nz, 1337x.to and many more.
I have ...
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Chrome address bar no longer shows protocol or www subdomain
A couple of days ago I noticed that for all websites, chrome omits from the address bar the protocol and the subdomain if it is www. My co-workers report that they are not seeing this. Chrome version ...
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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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Chrome method to create URL from selected text
hi I am looking for a way, using Chrome, to jump to a URL based on the text that is selected. e.g:
I select some text from a web page with mouse (e.g. the word "item")
I then want to go to a ...
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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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Can't open notes:// links in HCL Notes 12.0.1
I am using HCL Notes 12.0.1 and Windows 11 Pro, I can't open links that I have dragged from a tab in Notes to a folder on my harddrive. also tried to enter the url into Edge/Chrome with same error
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External links not opening in Google Chrome
I'm running in Windows 10 Pro. Chrome is my default browser.
When I click on the Chrome icon in my taskbar to open it, and then click on any external URL link, for example a link in a Microsoft Teams ...
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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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How to open multiple URLs in Chrome/Firefox and then save them individually?
If I have a .txt file containing a list of URLs, how can I get Chrome or Firefox to open them, one URL per tab and then save the page in each tab separately?
Any platform will do: Windows, Mac, Linux....
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Chrome won't launch external application after clicking "start application" within "external protocol request" dialog
After clicking on a magnet link (for example one at: https://www.openoffice.org/distribution/p2p/magnet.html) Chrome will show the usual "external protocol request" dialog where it asks whether to ...
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How to open a URL in a new browser window with AutoHotkey?
With AutoHotkey on Windows you can associate a shortcut to open a URL - web page or link - in the default browser with the following script:
^!g::Run https://mail.google.com/
This will open Gmail in ...
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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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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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Notes client shows error of when opening document via Notes URL
I am having issues when I try to open a document via Notes URL Notes://<SERVER>/<DB_UNID>/<VIEWD_UNID>/<DOCUMENT_UNID>.
If I have Notes client already running it shows me ...
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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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