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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PDF link not being encoded correctly on one machine but works fine on others
I have come across a pretty unusual issue with an encrypted .pdf one of our users received from their bank.
The encrypted PDF contains a link which on this user's host does not work ( browser loads ...
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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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