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How to download this web page properly?
I'm trying to download the content of this web page: https://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=index&itemId=1119299160&bcsId=10685. In particular, I'm interested to the pdf files that can be ...
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Apache server sometimes gets stuck for minutes with requests getting backlogged and waiting too much to be processed
I've got a production server with Apache 2.4.38 on Debian 10 and sometimes the web server doesn't function properly and doesn't immediately send a response to the HTTP requests it gets (All virtual ...
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Get a list of files (in the way similar to `ls`) on website/webpage before choosing which to download
Let's say I'm on a webpage on which there are several hyperlinks to pdf documents. I want to download those pdf. Is there a way to get a list of those documents (in the ls way) which then allows to ...
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How to find Plesk version being used on a website, when we are presented by Plesk default page?
In a website I am trying to do vulnerability assessment of, I have been presented by the following default web page of Plesk.
WHAT I TRIED
whatweb reveals the following.
whatweb abc.efg.com
http://...
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How to download a folder from a webserver which the developer left accidently, while the directory listing is disabled? [duplicate]
There is a backup folder at the location https://abc.efg.com/assets/images/socialIcons%20(copy)/, which the developer left by mistake, and I want to download it, as a part of vulnerability assessment (...
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How to use curl to access a webpage behind a login form?
There is this webpage I'm trying to scrape but it is behind a login form that needs user/password.
I used Firefox debug mode to find HTTP requests. Upon entering the credentials, there is a POST ...
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Linux daemon is up and running. However, I cannot reach the web interface
I have (similar to this) problem on boot at linux.
When it booted, "the daemon is up and running. However, I cannot reach the web interface. If I stop the running instance of the daemon and ...
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CGI (Commong Gateway Interface) program wont run from HTML page, getting "Forbidden" permission
I'm trying to run this example CGI program that is from this Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface
The HTML code is as follows, the file is named "add.html"
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How to break through on accessing web site as it restrict: This Feature is only available
How do we break to keep going on accessing web site by use of any PL when it restrict:
This Feature is only available via mobile app
How in definitive way the method or technique to solve to access ...
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www-data user cannot access USB drive mounted in /var/www/html/folder
I have an Raspberry Pi with mounted USB external drive.
I've mounted this USB (/dev/sda1) to /var/www/html/owncloud/data/drive as I want to be able to access it from my PHP applications (precisely: ...
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LXML Clarifications... Pretty, but complicated!
I have only recently met this lib and the first impact was not pleasant at all! First of all, from this site https://lxml.de/ I don't know about you, but I didn't understand anything! Too complicated ...
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Where should a web application store dynamically generated content by default?
Let's say you are developing a web application which generates reports based on user interaction. If you wanted to store those reports (not just temporarily cache them) somewhere in the *nix ...
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show active connection established when visit url
It's possibile know how and where connection are established when i visit specified URL?
I've to whitelist a specified url in my proxy but the site probabily use/open other connection blacklisted and ...
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Why do many Web sites miscalculate my current time?
I am using Debian. My clock shows the current time. I set the BIOS to Greenwich, but then the time is adjusted to the current time zone. But when I visit many Web sites, they think I'm visiting from a ...
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Can I use /etc/hosts to whitelist domains?
I set up a little ubuntu box for my son for remote learning and I would like him to only access certain domains in the browser. I was thinking of doing a blanket etc/hosts but I would need to add ...
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Full feature Linux scheduler
The scheduler cron processes outputs of programs only sending them via mails or writing them in files. So these outputs can't be assigned for example to a PHP variable (see this StackOverflow question)...
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How can I embed linux virtual machines in a website or a webapp?
I am planning to start a project to build a webapp, and I had an idea that I have seen in many places.
I have seen some websites where they have a linux virtual machine and a bash terminal is embedded ...
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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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How to download Data URLs from command line?
I only found JavaScript code for doing this through browser console.
For example if I copy image address from the first images from Google images search results grid I get a Data URL.
Commands that I ...
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Remove themes from Chrome
I am using Chrome web browser on
MX Linux 19.2. I installed a theme from Chrome Web store. For removing an installed theme, you have to go to settings and click on appearance. There is an option to ...
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scp backup command with automated folder is not overwriting older files when executed twice
I want to do a backup from my website. I am using following command, to have automated a directory with the correct dat:
scp -rp abc@ssh.web1.rz.xyz.de:webdir/ /mnt/Webseite/Backups/"$(date +"%Y-%m-%...
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On Ubuntu, can I see if www site looks good on mobile browser?
I'm developing homepages to myself. The pages looks good on my laptop but I would like to see if it looks good also in my mobile. Can I test how the sites looks in mobile without publishing the site ...
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How can one see homepage in github.com and on Ubuntu?
I tried to make a homepage on Ubuntu. Why can't I see my homepage on http://jaakkojseppala.github.io/ although my code is in https://github.com/JaakkoJSeppala/Kotisivu/blob/master/index.html ?
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What are -b and -c options for cURL?
When using cURL, what are -b and -c options?
On man curl, there are these descriptions, but it's confusing for me.
When they say "-c, --cookie-jar", "-b, --cookie", does it mean that we have to use ...
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Opening any webpage from terminal using the web browser of choice
I have a very simple question. I usually launch my web browser from the terminal using e.g.
firefox &
I would like to know if I can also launch it to a specific website like google.com. Even ...
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A website cannot be loaded on Firefox
Last week, on http://www.mytvsuper.com/, the following worked on Firefox.
general.useragent.override.mytvsuper.com
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) ...
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Crontabing Scrumblr screenshot
for a monitoring purpose, once a week, I need to capture some Scrumblr board. So cron will be used.
But how can I get a snapshot/screenshot for an URL ?
This runs on CentOS release 6.3 (Final) ...
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Browse the internet from the command line
I know there are command-line web browsers like w3m lynx etc. But I am looking for a simpler tool to just print search queries. Somewhat like curl does, but more nicely formatted.
Like if I run https:...
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How to enable HTTP/3 support in Linux? [closed]
Are there some stable open-source libraries need to install?
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Can I alter the result of DNS resolution for a VPS?
I have a VPS hosted by a no frills provider and have an IP that I log into through SHH. When I run a traceroute on it, the final hop identifies the location service as ip-somebrand.com.
As my ipv4 ...
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How can I stop webpages directing me to the mobile site (Firefox)?
I've recently started using Arch Linux on a Chromebook C201 (arm). However, when using Firefox, many websites seem to direct me to their mobile site, which is getting quite irritating. Perhaps they ...
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web videos don't play in any browser, debian
I'm so stumped by this problem I'm having. When I boot up my computer (thinkpad T470p, running Debian 4.19.12-1) everything is fine, but after some time, youtube videos stop playing and give a message ...
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Allow invalid path lynx
I have installed lynx using brew on macOS. It runs decently after me enabling all cookies http://www.pc-freak.net/blog/how-to-permanently-enable-cookies-in-lynx-text-browser-disable-accept-cookies-...
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wwwoffle alternative? [closed]
I'm looking for a caching proxy server that will allow me to browse visited sites while being off-line.
I'm a frequent flyer and when working on something on a plane, I find it difficult not to have ...
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How to compile the original first World Wide Web Browser (Nexus, by Tim B. Lee) on Debian stretch with GNUstep? [closed]
I recently found on wikipedia some links about the first web browser, I was already fascinated with the idea it could edit, but now I also learnt it could browse news, create anchors, etc. and I’d ...
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Simple utility to measure web site latency or user experience?
I used to use pings to periodically measure the latency to websites I frequent; however, that is an oversimplified picture.
I want to capture the "page load" time that I would experience if using a ...
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Local web service for dynamic connecting to remote computers services over ssh
Lets say, that I have multiple machines with multiple webservices running, all machines behind (different) ssh connecting route(s).
Does there exist a localhost service (webapp running at my own pc ...
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wget only parent pages using {..}
I have been trying to download specific pages in website.
The site uses common URL to go to next pages like below.
https://example.com/pages/?p=1
https://example.com/pages/?p=2
https://example.com/...
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Render mixture plain text and HTML output from a command in a terminal
I am using SDcv, Collins Cobuild 5 is it's dictionary, which output html, like:
# czxyl @ archlinux in ~/Dropbox [12:57:27] C:16
$ sdcv hello
Found 7 items, similar to hello.
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Upload permissions problem on local wordpress site
I've recently switched to linux and am trying to set up LEMP myself, which I've managed for the most part, however I've now run into permission problems Ì can't fix. A Local WordPress site cant upload ...
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Downloading a file from Terminal
I am trying to download a .txt file using terminal. Here is the link
(the download starts immediately you open the link):
https://es.osdn.net/projects/sfnet_kaldi/downloads/wsj0-train-spkrinfo.txt
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Can `fetch` retrieve only headers?
For $url being the placeholder for an URL.
curl can retrieve headers for an url using
#> curl -sI -L $url.
wget can do the same using:
#> wget --server-response --spider $url
fetch is the ...
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Putting external IP into a variable - grep operation failed [duplicate]
I need to put the IP of my VPS machine into a variable. I mean to the external IP address appearing the value of inet addr section, in ifconfig output.
I've tried:
ipa="$(hostname -i)"
But echo ${...
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Ability to use GNUPG's Webkey as a Web Services authentication mechanism
Is there a way to use GNUPG's new Webkey capability to create a federated passwordless public key authentication mechanism for web services login?
Something like the following architecture:
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Can a file be accessible on browser by ssh?
I know FTP works great, but setup FTP take some time; I wonder if there is any tool I can used to access Server file by SSH eg. ssh://root/filename.txt on the browser? (Browser is great, it supports ...
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wildcard subdomain issue on nginx using xip.io
I am using nginx-1.12.1-0+xenial0 version on linux server, here I've setup two domain as below on config file, but getting 404 Not Found error when tring to open http://projecta.192.168.1.10.xip.io/ ...
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Why can't www-data access an sshfs mount?
I have made an sshfs mount as follows (33 is the uid of the www-data). Listing the folders and files shows them as having read and execute access for www-data. But when my application running as www-...
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How to get a full screenshot of a page that goes off screen?
I seem to remember that maybe it was in Chrome or somewhere else that one could right-click on a web page and get a full screenshot of the entirety of the page as though it would fit on the monitor ...
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Problems accessing the MS Onedrive web application
I've recently become unable to access the MS Onedrive web app. It was working find until about two weeks ago but now all I get is a general connection error saying that the site can't be reached. "The ...
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How to run a web page in the background?
I am trying to make something which records my public ip address in a database, every few minutes.
I have already developed a web page which records the viewer's ip whenever loaded.
I would like to ...
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