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 to make Chrome URL display spaces instead of %20
Browsers like Firefox display URLs containing spaces (including nbsp's) with an actual space (); Chrome always displays spaces as %20 (and nbsp's as %C2%A0) in the address bar. (ie, Firefox displays ...
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Open a new tab in Chrome or switch to an existing one with the same URL (cmd)
I've been looking through chrome.exe's parameters and switches but couldn't find anything usable for this purpose:
Open a new tab from CLI or focus on an existing one if the URL matches
Example: ...
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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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Blocking Tiktok Android app from router
I was wondering how can I block the TikTok Android app from the router it self?
My router has a function to block a web address or an ip address.
So does anyone know what website/IP address should I ...
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Hash tag on URL gets stripped off upon clicking link on Windows Mail
In our newsletter we have a link with this URL:
http://www.someshop.com/index.php?a=some_name#same_page_anchor
This works in Gmail and Yahoo. However, in Windows Mail, when we click the link, the #...
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How to setup a CSV web datasource
In Excel, I can import a CSV from the web as text by simply pasting in the URL as a file name, but when I ask Excel to update, it has stripped the URL and tries to find a file on the local hard drive ...
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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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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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Is there a way to display % codes as literal characters in the browser’s URL bar?
Some websites use % codes (e.g., %3A) in their URLs. This makes the URL quite unreadable. I understand why these characters need to be escaped, but from a user perspective, it would sometimes be ...
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why is ICQ not showing image preview when i share my website url?
when i share my website on ICQ, it is not showing the image that is specified on the meta tag
<meta property="og:site_name" content="LJ Aulas">
<meta property="og:locale" content="pt_BR">
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Thunderbird - automatically convert URLs to links
I'd like Thunderbird to convert URLs to links automatically. I get hundreds of system-generated messages from a customer which contain unlinked URLs. The same URLs are converted to links automatically ...
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Capturing new HTTP calls
I would like to capture system calls to open (http) urls. I'm not concerned with what the browser is doing internally. Rather, what URLs are attempted to be opened by explorer, or other programs (...
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How to get the actual URL a post/submit form redirects to?
As you may know when you submit data through a form you are actually accessing an URL with your submitted data included in the URL as the query strings.
For example,
if the form asks you to submit ...
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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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Completely masking a website URL?
I have a tiny personal website (currently under construction) hosted on my raspberry pi. I also want to setup an OwnCloud server, but on my actual desktop computer for several reasons (not only ...
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