Questions tagged [url]
A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where a particular resource is available – and the mechanism for retrieving it. They are often informally referred to as web addresses.
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Redirect https://subdomain to https://subdomain.domain.tld
I am trying to fix a setup where people accessed a site via https://subdomain but we have a proper SSL cert for https://subdomain.domain.tld.
I am trying to force redirect to https://subdomain.domain....
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What Does :/// Mean?
The trash in Linux is shown under the path of trash:/// What does :/// mean?
I don't seem to be able to find the explanation of three slashes "///" anywhere online.
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Can I combine cut commands and use custom delimiters
I have log file where I need to extract URLs from GET requests which have 404d
I have used :
grep 404 testfile.txt | cut -f 2 -d '"' | cut -f 2 -d '/' | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sort -u
Is is ...
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How to use AWK select the file name in URL?
I have an awk script that runs this way.
Raw data text:
date:
1.0.1: http://example.com/1.0.1.tgz
1.0.2: http://example.com/1.0.2.tgz
1.0.3: http://example.com/1.0.3.tgz
1.0.4: http://...
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How to make okular open http/https links in PDFs with firefox?
I'm on FreeBSD and have compiled and installed the graphics/okular port (i.e. not much else of KDE4 other than okular's dependencies.) This has installed version 1.8.0. I start my X11 manually with ...
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How to generate URL+title from URL list automatically? (using bash or other tool)
Using Linux Bash, how can one turn a text file with:
http://example.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGQFZxIuURE
into:
http://example.org/ Example Domain
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Automated URL Hyperlink creation
I have a document full of URL's that I need to turn into hyperlinks. I have no clue where to begin.
My file looks like this but longer:
http://somesite1.html
http://somesiteAD.html
And I need it ...
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Can we specify service name and transport protocol in a URL?
A URL has its own syntax.
In a URL, we can specify either hostname or IP address. Similarly, while we can specify port number, can we specify service name instead of port number ?
If we can't, how ...
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How to save a web resource, applying decoding to URL Encoded Characters?
I would like to save this file with this URL "http://pti.regione.sicilia.it/portal/page/portal/PIR_PORTALE/PIR_LaStrutturaRegionale/PIR_AssessoratoEconomia/PIR_DipBilancioTesoro/PIR_Areetematiche/...
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Create a custom URL Protocol Handler
I would like to register a URL scheme (or protocol) handler for my own custom URL protocol, so that clicking on a link with this custom protocol will execute a command on that URL. Which steps do I ...
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Nginx proxy_pass + ssl problem with seo friendly url
Below is nginx.conf
server {
listen 00.00.000.000:80;
server_name my_site.com www.my_site.com;
return 301 https://www.my_site.com$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 00.00.000.000:443;
server_name ...
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xdg-open tries to open URLs as files on LXDE [duplicate]
I run
$ xdg-open 'http://google.com'
in /home/rominf/ and expect Firefox to open Google, but instead got GUI message with error:
/home/rominf/http:/google.com: No such file or directory
Firefox is ...
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Fetching title of browser
[Fetching user title]
Seen a post prior of someone posting how to do it by single account
I wish to do this from the range 1-1000 and have it output to >> .txt
Example:
x@nine:~# wget -qO- 'http:...
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Windows PDF viewer interprets hyperlinks incorrectly from Linux converted PDF?
I am operating on a RPi Model 3B with Jessie OS and Python version 2.7.9.
I am using XlsxWriter (ver1.1.0) to write an .xlsx file and then converting it to PDF using LibreOffice's conversion code, as ...
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HTTP client saving download metadata
I am looking for a way to download files from the Web, while saving download metadata, like the requested URI, the returned status code and maybe even TLS certificate information (server certificate ...
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xdg-open on debian 9 fails to open browser
I decided to try lxdm (was using fluxbox and xfce), and discovered that for many programs the url handler was failing, producing this error message;
Quite strange as you can see, it's prepending the ...
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AWK: splitting URL into parts and print
I have these two
http://www.example.com:8888/index.php
http://home.example.com:8888/index.php (home can be anything but www)
and want to get this:
example.com
home.example.com
Preferably in some ...
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Get the domain name from IP address
I am using the following commands to get the domain name using the IP address
dig -x IPaddress
But it gives me some host names like ns1 etc. Is there any bash command that can give the actual domain ...
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How to register new protocol URL in windows manager
When you open a link on the internet such as ftp://myserver.com, it prompts you to open the link with your FTP client of choice. Same thing with irc://freenode.net. It prompts you to open the link ...
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Capture internet traffic on single interface
I have been asked by a customer to provide a list of all URL's that my company's linux server connects to in order to complete a software update including individual TCP,UDP ports that these ...
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cURL 404 Error - URL encoding with SharePoint URL
I am trying to connect to a SharePoint URL and pull the data in the form of a .json file. My URL looks like this:
.../_api/web/lists/GetByTitle('titles list')/items
If I give the URL as it is ...
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Download a URL containing a token query string
To explain what I want I will give an example (My foreign friends sorry it is in Arabic not English :D ) .
Let's take this URL for example. When you open it a blue square will appear after a 5 ...
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How to remove everything after http://example.com with awk or sed
Let's say I have an output file with a large quantity of URLs in it. How would I remove a part of the URL with awk or sed so that the final result would be http://example.com and not http://example....
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How would I make a web redirect server that changes the incoming port to 80?
Basically I have hidden my server behind cloudflare. My server listens on port 80 and port 25461, and cloudflare only protects on certain ports, 80 being one of them.
But I have a lot of users, ...
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sources.list repository URL for Debian security updates with or without “debian-security” path?
After installing Debian 9.1, the sources.list entry for security updates used this URL:
http://security.debian.org/debian-security
According to SourcesList and Security Information, the URL is:
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Firefox - reading out urls of opened tabs from the command-line
I sometimes have quite a big range of tabs open in Firefox and I prefer it to save them to a file, rather then using the build-in bookmarks.
Therefore I (manually) copy the urls from the about:...
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How to properly move weblinks from my browser to a folder via drag and drop in Debian with KDE? (page titles not shown)
Besides having my desktop span over multiple monitors I'd also like to be able to move weblinks to it (or to folders on it).
I'm running Debian 9.1 with KDE and am using the standard Dolphin file-...
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sed to replace text url to html url
I have a bunch of URL in a text file.
As Firefox seems unable to load these URL directly, I must convert them to HTML.
Trying with sed doesn't work:
sed -e 's/^(.*)$/<a href="\1">\1<\/a>&...
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What is the recommended way to retrieve host and repository from git URL
Think of a utility like gerrit-sh which uses git config options to determine where the gerrit host is located. The context for my question is this function get_repo_remote_config(). So I want to ...
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Download a single image from Google Street View
I just found that we can see Google Street View images from the following link:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=640x640&location=38.3810257,-89.486167&heading=0
(where ...
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Create a url file with multiple links
i need to edit the page number of multiple url links in the text file.
eg:
http://gk4success.com/questions.php?page=1&parent=0&lang=2&c-id=27&q_type=
...
http://gk4success.com/...
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How to save file and corresponding url?
Suppose, I download a book from a URL(using wget or other tool). I want to save the book and the URL, so that I can know from where I downloaded the book.
I don't use different file. I want to save ...
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Problem with url encoding on debian sources.list
I am trying to add a repository (datastax) to my sources. This repository ask you to add your username and password, and also warn that you will have to urlencode special characters.
So I added:
deb ...
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Extracting substring from environment variable
In a bash or zsh script, how might I extract the
host from a url, e.g. unix.stackexchange.com from
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/ask, if the latter is in an environment variable?
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Wget Won't Recursively Download
I'm trying to copy a forum thread with this directory structure:
The first page has a URL like this:
https://some.site.com/foo/bar/threadNumber
And the rest of the pages follow this format:
https:/...
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Extract URL from specific pattern (Google Alert)
I have tried every possible (to my poor knowledge) combination of grep and sed commands, but fail to extract URLs with the following pattern (Google Alert e-mails in plaintext):
"url": "https://www....
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Reload a local script from a URL available source code?
I have a long script (>500 rows) I load in each bootstrapping of a webpage, from a local file. The source code of this script is often updated and presented under a certain URL so that all users could ...
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Get the query string from URLs in a log file
I have a server log file that contains a number of log entries in the following format:
193.1.172.46 - - [23/Mar/2008:03:57:38 +0000] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 404 289 "-" "gsa-crawler (Enterprise; ...
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Hosted URL shortener
We do encounter an issue with a JWT token length, which is used within a SSO system. One of our client is using outlook 2007 and there is a known bug regarding the length of a link provided inside an ...
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Why does xdg-open remove @ from a URI if it's the first character in the path?
I'm trying to get xdg-open to properly handle URIs with the pattern of ob://@username but it seems that xdg-open is stripping the @ symbol. Is there someway to prevent this without modifying xdg-open ...
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Thunderbird: wrap long URLs when displaying message
When I receive an email with a long URL, Icedove (Thunderbird) does not wrap the URL in the message window, but instead shows the long URL in one long line. Additionally, a horizontal scroll bar ...
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Automating dirb for scanning several URLs
I have a bit of a problem making this script work and was wondering if anyone knew what the problem is. It is supposed to take a list of urls as input, scan them for sub directories and then output it ...
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.htaccess for redirecting an URL with hashtag
I have urls which I need to redirect to another URL. The issue is that the source URLs contain # character.
source url: http://www.wawa.com/fr/#/creations/eclairs
redirect to : http://www.wawa.fr/fr/...
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Is it possible people use Linux commands to change link locations as you're clicking on them?
In theory, is it possible that people use features included in Linux distros as standard to change link locations as they are clicked, and direct people to different websites.
An example of this ...
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Terminal - create hyperlinks
I am creating Log-Reports which are viewable through the Web-browser. Is there an easy way to make links clickable in Linux Terminal? (Gnome-Terminal)
I am copying those links and manually open my ...
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Why does this ffmpeg command work in bash and not zsh?
Today I got home from work (run bash on an Ubuntu box) and tried to run some code on my local arch box with my beloved zsh and the commands were failing?
The command is below with the personal info ...
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How to use a greped url provided by tshark inside a bash script?
I'm trying to use a url piped from tshark into a while loop.
while read line ; do
echo "$line"
ffmpeg -i "$line" -c copy "filename"
done < <(tshark -i tun0 -B 50 -P -V -q -l -Y 'http matches "(...
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Is there a browser that supports IPv6 Link Local addresses?
I'd like to know at last one browser that allows me to browse fe80::4216:7eff:fe9f:79ac%enp2s0f0, for example. I've checked there're many tickets open in bug trackers of big name browsers like Firefox ...
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Extract URL from non-formatted text
I've found only examples on extracting substrings from formatted text like HTML files, but in my case I need to output a list of URLs for example:
...
https://twitter.com/user1/status/xyza
https://...
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How to extract all links from a given url in a decent time
I'm trying to extract the links from a specified url and redirect them to a file.
At first I tried using --spider , this is my code:
wget --spider --force-html -m http://file/path 2>&1 | grep ...
