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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Firefox flatpak does not work with Slack flatpack link
How does Slack flatpak find the application for a URL?
I have xfce4 on Debian Linux.
I noticed that Libre Office is smart enough to open Flatpak Firefox so how does slack find the default browser (and ...
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how to enable access to files on the linux server via URL with password protection
I have a Linux centos 7 server. On that server, I started one script which should save images into one folder /images and inside the CSV file.
Is there any chance that I can make CSV file and folder ...
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Blog's URLs not lining up with Debian Wordpress config
I'm having trouble with my current Debian Wordpress configuration. Wordpress has no issue reaching the correct the wp-content directory locally, but the URLs to myblog.com/wp-content/../../ are ...
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Retrieving hosts from a URL list using Perl's Regexp::Common::URI::http library
Presently I'm getting a list of URLs from a text file like so:
perl -MRegexp::Common=URI -nE 'say $& while /$RE{URI}{HTTP}{-scheme => "https?"}/g' urls.txt
And am wondering how to ...
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Error parsing config: Error parsing "baseurl" - Oracle Linux
The OS of my machine is Oracle Linux Server 7.5.
I need to install a command via a repository, precisely yum --enablerepo=packages-microsoft-com-prod install mdatp, but I get errors like:
libatomic-4....
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Open URL as if with browser from command line
I am having roughly the same problem as in this question, where the problem is, there is a certain URL that, when called in the browser, will download a file, but when called from the command line ...
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PHP - get datetime when jpg file at URL has been accessed last time
I know the date-time is saved in the access log, but I think its not possible to read this file from php.
What is the easiest way to find out the date and time when a specific file (jpg) has been last ...
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Customizing linkifiication in Linux terminal
My employer uses a number of custom link shortcuts. For example, b/ is the bug database. This means that in IRC, we trade links like b/12345.
I'm running weechat in gnome terminal for IRC.
Is there ...
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How do I set priority of which application opens a url schema (rdp://) in kde?
I have several applications installed that handles url schema rdp:// (for example, rdp://myadmin@1.2.3.4). These applications are Krdc and Remmina. I want such links to be opened in krdc, but they are ...
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Skip the browser page when opening https URIs for Zoom, Teams, and other native apps
Android has a convenient feature: certain https links that have associated local apps installed are opened directly in these apps, skipping the browser page. How do I achieve this in Linux?
I have ...
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Opening terminal links with the keyboard
One of the very useful things about urxvt is that I could use keyboard shortcuts to navigate through and open hyperlinks that appeared on the terminal screen (by adding some urxvt* entries on ....
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How to make `apt` display the URL of downloaded packages? [duplicate]
How can I make apt display the URL it's downloading, e.g. apt install or apt download?
Consider the following example:
$ apt download libvirglrenderer0
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main ...
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Download file from URL with redirection, completely automatic at the CLI, replacing browser operation
I have asked Download file from URL with redirection, "?" and other symbols, from the command line
curl -L did not get the correct file right away.
A couple of comments pointed to a way ...
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Escaping UTF-8 encoded URLs
I want to replace a variable expansion with a URL --- directly inside a file.
The URL I want to replace the variable expansion with is UTF-8 encoded due to the language of its webpage name being Right-...
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Portable way to set custom URL scheme handler for all users
I already know how to create a custom URL scheme and set its handler using xdg-utils:
xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler name handler.desktop
However, the command affects only the current ...
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How to get the url from current tab of firefox by help of wmctrl?
It's possible to get the current tab with xdotool:
# set focus to address on browser
xdotool search --onlyvisible --classname Navigator windowactivate --sync key F6
# copy address from browser tab to ...
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How to prevent '#' from getting converted to '%23' in URL?
I'm trying to open a website at a specific location. The webpage is an HTML version of a markdown file, so appending a #header redirects straight to a location. It works when I do it manually in the ...
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URL rewriting for root of website
This is the configuration of my Apache 2.4.37 webserver on Centos 8.
File /etc/httpd/conf.d/mysite.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mysite.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
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which urls to un-block for centOS system setup
I am a newbie to linux system. Our system guy spun up a centOS server with very minimal configuration for me in the data center. For security reason, information security team has outbound internet ...
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How to xdg-open specific links with different apps
Hi I want to open specific link with specific application. To be more specific, I want to open zoom links https://us02web.zoom.us/j/something?pwd=somethingsomething with desktop-ish zoom application (...
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Implementing Sort URLs Regex Using Unix Commands
I am a newbie to regular expressions as they manifest in things such as sed, awk, sort, grep and other Unix binaries.
I know that if I sort a list of URLs in my text editor (BBEdit) using this regular ...
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How to search OpenStreetMap for tags? [closed]
How can I have e.g. all highway speed cameras displayed on the map, i.e. what is the URL syntax to search OpenStreetMap for certain tags?
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Problem with downloading multiple url data with wget
I have a text file download.txt. Here I'm showing only 8 files url. My original file has 900 urls to download.
https://www.web.org/download/OE056783
https://www.web.org/download/OE078945
https://www....
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How to curl multiple URL's from a text file containing URL's [duplicate]
I have a script on a linux server which connects to a URL refines the data and returns a text file with multiple links, please see below:
Script:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/curl -k -s URL | cut --...
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Build a URL from output of shell script
On a linux server i have a script that does a curl and returns an output as below:
Script:
/usr/bin/curl -k -s https://example.com:18080/seriessnapshot?substringSearch=OpenFin%20Memory | cut --...
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how to convert plaintext to html with clickable links
how can i convert plaintext files containing a bunch of urls to html with clickable links? preferably on the command line.
background: every once in a while i end up with a plaintext file containing ...
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Unable to open URL with xdg-open
Getting this error as regular user:
~$ xdg-open http://www.google.com/
xdg-open: no method available for opening 'http://www.google.com/'
~$
~$ xdg-mime query default text/html
~$
Code from /usr/bin/...
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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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