Questions tagged [url]
A URL (Uniform Resource Locator), is a universal identifier on the web. A URL is a reference to a web resource at a specific location, and provides a means for retrieving that resource.
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How do I change the URI (URL) for a remote Git repository?
I have a repo (origin) on a USB key that I cloned on my hard drive (local). I moved "origin" to a NAS and successfully tested cloning it from here.
I would like to know if I can change the ...
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What is the maximum length of a URL in different browsers?
What is the maximum length of a URL for each browser?
Is a maximum URL length part of the HTTP specification?
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What is the difference between a URI, a URL, and a URN?
What is the difference between a URL, a URI, and a URN?
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Get the current URL with JavaScript?
All I want is to get the website URL. Not the URL as taken from a link. On the page loading I need to be able to grab the full, current URL of the website and set it as a variable to do with as I ...
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How do I modify the URL without reloading the page?
Is there a way I can modify the URL of the current page without reloading the page?
I would like to access the portion before the # hash if possible.
I only need to change the portion after the domain,...
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Encode URL in JavaScript
How do you safely encode a URL using JavaScript such that it can be put into a GET string?
var myUrl = "http://example.com/index.html?param=1&anotherParam=2";
var myOtherUrl = "http://example.com/...
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How can I get query string values in JavaScript?
Is there a plugin-less way of retrieving query string values via jQuery (or without)?
If so, how? If not, is there a plugin which can do so?
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How to lazy load images in ListView in Android
I am using a ListView to display some images and captions associated with those images. I am getting the images from the Internet. Is there a way to lazy load images so while the text displays, the UI ...
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Get the values from the "GET" parameters (JavaScript) [duplicate]
I have a URL with some GET parameters as follows:
www.test.com/t.html?a=1&b=3&c=m2-m3-m4-m5
I need to get the whole value of c. I tried to read the URL, but I got only m2. How do I do this ...
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How can I open a URL in Android's web browser from my application?
How to open an URL from code in the built-in web browser rather than within my application?
I tried this:
try {
Intent myIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(download_link));
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Path.Combine for URLs?
Path.Combine is handy, but is there a similar function in the .NET framework for URLs?
I'm looking for syntax like this:
Url.Combine("http://MyUrl.com/", "/Images/Image.jpg")
which would return:
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React-router URLs don't work when refreshing or writing manually
I'm using React-router and it works fine while I'm clicking on link buttons, but when I refresh my webpage it does not load what I want.
For instance, I am in localhost/joblist and everything is fine ...
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How do I get the current absolute URL in Ruby on Rails?
How can I get the current absolute URL in my Ruby on Rails view?
The request.request_uri only returns the relative URL.
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What is the best regular expression to check if a string is a valid URL?
How can I check if a given string is a valid URL address?
My knowledge of regular expressions is basic and doesn't allow me to choose from the hundreds of regular expressions I've already seen on the ...
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Get the full URL in PHP
I use this code to get the full URL:
$actual_link = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
The problem is that I use some masks in my .htaccess, so what we see in the URL is not ...
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URL encoding the space character: + or %20?
When is a space in a URL encoded to +, and when is it encoded to %20?
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Linking to an external URL in Javadoc?
Something like:
/**
* See {@linktourl http://google.com}
*/
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Download single files from GitHub
What are some tips on downloading a single file from a GitHub repo?
I don't want the URL for displaying the raw file; in the case of binaries, there's nothing.
http://support.github.com/discussions/...
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Java URL encoding of query string parameters
Say I have a URL
http://example.com/query?q=
and I have a query entered by the user such as:
random word £500 bank $
I want the result to be a properly encoded URL:
http://example.com/query?q=...
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How to get URL parameter using jQuery or plain JavaScript?
I have seen lots of jQuery examples where parameter size and name are unknown.
My URL is only going to ever have 1 string:
http://example.com?sent=yes
I just want to detect:
Does sent exist?
Is it ...
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What is a "slug" in Django?
When I read Django code I often see in models what is called a "slug". I am not quite sure what this is, but I do know it has something to do with URLs. How and when is this slug-thing ...
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What's the shebang/hashbang (#!) in Facebook and new Twitter URLs for?
I've just noticed that the long, convoluted Facebook URLs that we're used to now look like this:
http://www.facebook.com/example.profile#!/pages/Another-Page/123456789012345
As far as I can recall, ...
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Hyphen, underscore, or camelCase as word delimiter in URIs?
I'm designing an HTTP-based API for an intranet app. I realize it's a pretty small concern in the grand scheme of things, but: should I use hyphens, underscores, or camelCase to delimit words in the ...
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How do I create a URL shortener? [closed]
I want to create a URL shortener service where you can write a long URL into an input field and the service shortens the URL to "http://www.example.org/abcdef".
Instead of "abcdef" there can be any ...
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How to get the full URL in Express?
Let's say my sample URL is
http://example.com/one/two
and I say I have the following route
app.get('/one/two', function (req, res) {
var url = req.url;
}
The value of url will be /one/two.
How ...
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Which characters make a URL invalid?
Which characters make a URL invalid?
Are these valid URLs?
example.com/file[/].html
http://example.com/file[/].html
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How to get GET request values in Django?
I am currently defining regular expressions in order to capture parameters in a URL, as described in the tutorial. How do I access parameters from the URL as part the HttpRequest object?
My ...
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How to build a query string for a URL in C#?
A common task when calling web resources from a code is building a query string to including all the necessary parameters. While by all means no rocket science, there are some nifty details you need ...
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Check if a JavaScript string is a URL
Is there a way in JavaScript to check if a string is a URL?
RegExes are excluded because the URL is most likely written like stackoverflow; that is to say that it might not have a .com, www or http.
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Fixed page header overlaps in-page anchors
If I have a non-scrolling header in an HTML page, fixed to the top, having a defined height:
Is there a way to use the URL anchor (the #fragment part) to have the browser scroll to a certain point in ...
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Adding a parameter to the URL with JavaScript
In a web application that makes use of AJAX calls, I need to submit a request but add a parameter to the end of the URL, for example:
Original URL:
http://server/myapp.php?id=10
Resulting URL:
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How do I parse a URL into hostname and path in javascript?
I would like to take a string
var a = "http://example.com/aa/bb/"
and process it into an object such that
a.hostname == "example.com"
and
a.pathname == "/aa/bb"
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Redirecting to a relative URL in JavaScript
My problem is that I want to redirect via JavaScript to a directory above.
My code:
location.href = (location.href).substr(0, (location.href).lastIndexOf('folder'))
The URL looks like this:
example....
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How can I download a file from a URL in C#?
What is a simple way of downloading a file from a URL path?
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How to check if the URL contains a given string?
How could I do something like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
if(window.location.contains("franky")) // This doesn't work, any suggestions?
{
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How to convert URL parameters to a JavaScript object? [duplicate]
I have a string like this:
abc=foo&def=%5Basf%5D&xyz=5
How can I convert it into a JavaScript object like this?
{
abc: 'foo',
def: '[asf]',
xyz: 5
}
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How do I load an HTTP URL with App Transport Security enabled in iOS 9? [duplicate]
So, the new beta SDK of iOS released last night has "App Transport Security" which encourages developers to use https instead of http. In principle, this is a great idea, and I already use https in ...
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Refresh image with a new one at the same url
I am accessing a link on my site that will provide a new image each time it is accessed.
The issue I am running into is that if I try to load the image in the background and then update the one on ...
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How do I URl encode something in Node.js?
I want to URL encode this:
SELECT name FROM user WHERE uid = me()
Do I have to download a module for this? I already have the request module.
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How can I percent-encode URL parameters in Python?
If I do
url = "http://example.com?p=" + urllib.quote(query)
It doesn't encode / to %2F (breaks OAuth normalization)
It doesn't handle Unicode (it throws an exception)
Is there a better ...
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Get protocol, domain, and port from URL
I need to extract the full protocol, domain, and port from a given URL. For example:
https://localhost:8181/ContactUs-1.0/contact?lang=it&report_type=consumer
>>>
https://localhost:8181
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When should I use a trailing slash in my URL?
When should a trailing slash be used in a URL? For example - should my URL look like /about-us/ or like /about-us?
I am fully aware of the SEO-related issues - duplicate content and the canonical ...
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URL encoding in Android
How do you encode a URL in Android?
I thought it was like this:
final String encodedURL = URLEncoder.encode(urlAsString, "UTF-8");
URL url = new URL(encodedURL);
If I do the above, the http:// in ...
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Get URL query string parameters
What is the "less code needed" way to get parameters from a URL query string which is formatted like the following?
www.mysite.com/category/subcategory?myqueryhash
Output should be: myqueryhash
I ...
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How to check whether a string is a valid HTTP URL?
There are the Uri.IsWellFormedUriString and Uri.TryCreate methods, but they seem to return true for file paths, etc.
How do I check whether a string is a valid (not necessarily active) HTTP URL for ...
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Should URL be case sensitive?
I noticed that
HTTP://STACKOVERFLOW.COM/QUESTIONS/ASK
and
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask
both works fine - actually the previous one is converted to lowercase.
I think that this makes ...
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Is there any method to get the URL without query string?
I have a URL like http://localhost/dms/mduserSecurity/UIL/index.php?menu=true&submenu=true&pcode=1235.
I want to get the URL without the query string: http://localhost/dms/mduserSecurity/UIL/...
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Get URL parameters from a string in .NET
I've got a string in .NET which is actually a URL. I want an easy way to get the value from a particular parameter.
Normally, I'd just use Request.Params["theThingIWant"], but this string ...
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How do I get the YouTube video ID from a URL?
I want to get the v=id from YouTube’s URL with JavaScript (no jQuery, pure JavaScript).
Example YouTube URL formats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8nQa1cJyX8&a=GxdCwVVULXctT2lYDEPllDR0LRTutYfW
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