Questions tagged [web]
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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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execute scp command as wwwrun
i would like to copy files using scp with ssh-keys after a php script is run in a browser. So the user executing the scp command is wwwrun.
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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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How to go to webpage and check a html checkbox
At the coffee place I use to go, the captive portal grants wifi access after you check a checkbox in their landing page (accepting the TOS). That wouldn't be an issue if I didn't spend hours there and ...
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Domain pointing to specified directory Ex.: /var/www/example
I have main domain that is pointing to my VPS address and I want that points to /var/www -> my web melorcraft.eu, but I have two domains, the second domain I want to point to /var/www/example/ not /...
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Should I install a custom webapp in /opt or /srv?
My understanding is that custom/non-distro software should be installed in /opt. However in a Django deployment tutorial [1] I found a suggestion to install a Django webapp to /srv which is described ...
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What's a good and free ER diagramming tool for Linux that is approachable via a web interface?
A web based ER diagramming tool.
One that you can install on Linux and afterwards approach it via a web interface.
Preferably Open source.
Optional: connectivity with the database.
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Automating Google image search
I am using a raspberry Pi at the moment and I would like to acheive the following.
Every hour an automated Google Image search of a specific predefined term.
The image is then downloaded to the Pi
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Why is /var/www/html writable only by root (by default)?
After setting up LAMP (on Debian) and then looking at /var/www/html's permissions, I was surprised that it is only writeable by root (drwxr-xr-x 1 root root).
Presumably PHP scripts can create files ...
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Web VLC Player mp3 streaming from usb.hdd via 192.168.x.x:8090
Hi this works till now with my online links, but I can't get any music from my offline usb.hdd.
Via console it works with the comment
vlc play
/media/pi/fmgNAS/Music/90_Discoteque_Mix_Vol.1/...
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Web Desktop Environment [closed]
I have a mad idea, I want to make my own Linux distro (maybe on *buntu system) with a DE which I could develop with HTML5, CSS and JS. To start, I just want to make my DE a web page (I don't talk ...
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How to securely automate periodic website logins
I'm writing a webpage-monitoring program that, every hour, logs in to a website using Selenium and notifies me if the page has changed in a particular way. For example, this program can monitor my ...
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Opensourced File Archive system with a web ui?
I am looking for a free/opensourced archive utility for a file server.
Basically, I am looking for an easy way to manage archives of hundreds of videos, pictures, audio files, documents, meta info, ...
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recursively download from a website
I am trying to get images from a website url "www.example.com/products" in this products folder lots of subfolders there I need to download the products folder.
In the www.example.com/products, www....
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Is there an additional option to display hidden command on the terminal?
Copy and pasting from a website to the terminal is very harmful , there are an example here
You past the following line :ls /some/thing/much/too/long/to/type/ , by pressing Enter the following ...
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Debian, ftp user with access to /var/www
I want to have ftp user who have only access to /var/www and work on all of files, but the problems arise when I give permission to /var/www, exactly chown. I try with chgrp but then I cannot edit ...
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puzzling.stackexchange.com turns left monitor black
This is a weird one.
This is a new issue on an existing Ubuntu 14.04, dual screen setup, using Unity, nothing out of the ordinary. When I go to puzzling.stackexchange.com on my left monitor screen ...
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How to host a website on kali linux virtualbox machine? [closed]
I have a puzzle, shown here: http://imgur.com/a/ijyPf.
How do I host my website on a Kali Linux virtual machine? How do I access my website with my public IP?
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Web Browser for Debian on ARM?
I recently installed Debian on my ARM Android tablet. However, I'm having trouble finding a good web browser. I've added the Raspbian repos in addition to the standard Debian repos, but I can't find a ...
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Troubles with certificates
[Tue Mar 01 17:29:01.443730 2016] [:error] [pid 12834] Misconfiguration of certificate's CN and virtual name. The certificate CN has mail.[domain.com]. We expected www.[domain.com] as virtual name.
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How to view only contents of a website without the source content (HTML)?
I tried using curl but it displays lot of HTML content (Source).
I wanted to know whether it is possible to view contents of the webpage - say a table with some information.
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Workaround for running privileged commands from www-data user
I would like to append a string to a file located in /tmp/ from a php script. The command I would like to execute is:
sudo sed -e 's/$/,yes/' -i /tmp/a.csv
The Problem
I can't run a sudo command ...
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Script a mobile recharge website
I recently come to know that I can curl a website using the bash command
curl --user user:pass xyz.com
I have an idea for recharging my mobile using the bash script. I want to write a script which ...
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How can I get many addresses from many trajectories with bash script without error?
I have many trajectories data. 500k. I try to get adresses of these coordinates. I use bash command in linux.
#!/bin/bash
filename="$1"
while read -r line
do
uid=$(echo $line | cut -f1 -d,)
lat=$(...
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treating web page like directory
I'm a Mac user and I want to cd to a web page and then cp some files onto a local directory. Is there a way to do this?
This is the page I'm referring to: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/M.Herbster/...
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Can I download tar.gz file while it is being compressed?
I am compressing a huge directory which could be more than 10 GB, It takes time to compress it. But at the same time, I have to download this to another new server.
So while the compressing is going ...
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Command line tool to check when a URL was updated?
It would certainly be possible to whip together something in Python to query a URL to see when it was last modified, using the HTTP headers, but I wondered if there is an existing tool that can do ...
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Simplest way to add a data lookup to an HTML website on Ubuntu?
I want to learn how to make the simplest possible data lookup function on a website. I don't want to use any of the usual tools such as MySQL or a CMS or any other heavy framework.
I set up an Ubuntu ...
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How can I install a .patch for firefox in linux
I have some problems with WebWorkers and crypto in mozilla firefox:
I've read that there is a patch here and i would like to try it
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=842818
the patch that ...
