Questions tagged [url]
Uniform Resource Locators are a generic scheme for specifying the location of resources. They are most commonly used for identifying locations on the Internet (such as webpages and email addresses) but can be used to reference almost anything.
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What’s the point in having “www” in a URL?
Other than for historical reasons, is there is reason to have “www” in a URL?
Should I create a permanent redirect from www.xyz.com to xyz.com, or from xyz.com to www.xyz.com? Which one would you ...
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How can one distinguish the host and the port in an IPv6 URL?
URLs always have this format:
<protocol>://<host>[:<port>]/[<path>][#<hash>]
The problem is that IPv6 uses colons, just like the separator of port and host, e.g:
2001:...
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How the heck is http://to./ a valid domain name?
Apparently it's a URL shortener. It resolves just fine in Chrome and Firefox. How is this a valid top-level domain?
Update: for the people saying it's browser shenanigans, why is it that: http://com./...
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Simple apache2 redirect from one domain to another
What I want to do is the following:
My domain xy.example.com no longer exists. Thus I want to do a simple redirect to the new domain abc.example.com. It should be a redirect, that also works when ...
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Disabling URL decoding in nginx proxy
When I browse to this URL: http://localhost:8080/foo/%5B-%5D server (nc -l 8080) receives it as-is:
GET /foo/%5B-%5D HTTP/1.1
However when I proxy this application via nginx (1.1.19):
location /foo ...
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Why does this URL with excessive preceding dots resolve to an IP address?
http://.................1168951531
Which, when put into chrome, previews to the URL http://69.172.200.235/, which redirects (by external server response code 3XX) to www.test.com, but that is outside ...
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Using .local for internal websites [duplicate]
Is it okay to use app.mycoolname.local for URLs that are private / internal?
We have several applications that are web based, but they are private apps and are not exposed to the public.
We have ...
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Can an attacker sniff data in a URL over HTTPS?
Can data included in a URL be considered secure if the connection is made over HTTPS? For example, if a user clicks a link in an email that points to https://mysite.com?mysecretstring=1234 would it ...
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How can I enforce that my urls always start with www?
I want to ensure that users come to www.mydomain.com even if they arrive through the alias mydomain.com. This is so that I have control over cookies on subdomains, and so that Google sees one single ...
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Prevent URL Rewrite rules from being inherited by subdirectories in IIS7
I have a URL Rewrite setup for clean URLs in a CMS and my web.config looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<...
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to www or not to www [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What’s the point in having "www" in a URL?
Should I use www in front of a URL or not? Some sites say we should and some say the opposite.
Pros
Cons
If there is no www ...
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Who (What?!) is "http://1.1.1.1/bmi"? [closed]
I'm not sure if this is the place to ask but I found some pages who contain links in them that start with "http://1.1.1.1/bmi".
Who or what is 1.1.1.1? or maybe http://1.1.1.1/bmi has a meaning more ...
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IIS URL Rewrite HTTP to HTTPS with Port
My website has two bindings: 1000 and 1443 (port 80/443 are in use by another website on the same IIS instance). Port 1000 is HTTP, port 1443 is HTTPS. What I want to do is redirect any incoming ...
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Rewritten URLs with parameter length > 255 don't work
I'm using mod_rewrite to rewrite URLs like this:
http://example.com/1,2,3,4/foo/
By doing this in .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([\d,]+)/foo/$ /foo.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
It works fine, ...
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How to set up Google ShortName service for my domain, so that the FQDN isn't needed
The blog post "A 'tinyurl' service for your domain" explains how to set up a ShortName service for your domain using Google Apps. For example, if your domain is example.com and you use Google Apps, ...
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Add trailing slash when it's missing in nginx
I'm running Magento on Nginx using this config: http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/1_-_installation_and_configuration/configuring_nginx_for_magento.
Now I want to 301 all URLs without trailing slash ...
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Why can't some websites be shown without the "www" in the URL? [closed]
I used to type the website URL without the "www" and it works fine with almost all sites that I have tried, so far.
But I realize that my university's website never show up if you don't type the "www"...
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What URL should the browser display with this DNS configuration?
If I have the following records in the DNS:
hostname Record Type address
benmccormack.com A 216.10.244.61
www.benmccormack.com CNAME ...
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HTTP URL Redirection Command Line Trace [closed]
I have to produce definitive evidence that can be documented on a piece of paper, proving that one URL redirects to another.
When you browse to the URL in question, the web server responds with an ...
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What determines whether the FQDN is interpreted as IPv6 or IPv4?
When I type a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) in my URL bar, the browser connects to some mapping table (where is this table stored? with the service provider?) that determines where the file ...
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Standard for singular vs plural type names in urls [closed]
I work on a web site where we are having a major re architecture. There is a point which may be a little persnickety but I can't see a standard one way or another.
When you are using real words in a ...
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Using curl to make a HEAD request with a hard timeout
I'd like to use curl to send a HTTP HEAD request to a URL to verify that it is working correctly (server is up and sends a successful response). At the end, I need the final HTTP response code ...
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How to make a URL point to a Tomcat instance?
Sorry if this question makes no sense (no expert here), but I understand that tomcat listens to port 8080 and that url are usually addressed to 80. Is there a way to tell DNS that urls should point to ...
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Enterprise internal URL conventions
developer here... I'd like your IT perspective on this one...
I'm building a new internal web app for my company, and starting to think about how it will be deployed. Many of the existing web apps ...
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How do you configure IIS 7 to use a subdirectory as the default document?
So I have a website running on a discount asp.net account, and I put an asp.net mvc app in a subdirectory. If my url is 'www.website.com' and my app is in directory 'sample', then 'www.website.com/...
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Apache: redirect specific URL to a local server on different port
This seems straightforward, but I can't make it work.
I have a pretty trivial webserver that only needs to do two things:
example.com/status.html returns a local file (this works)
example.com/atom ...
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nginx url rewriting. i just don't get it
Ok, an example url is
http://www.mysite.com/?p=account&view=settings
the p uri is a constant. all urls have it.
the view is one of many optional uri.
i've tried to understand url rewriting ...
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404 Error on a file that exists?
A script makes a GET request to my URL like so:
http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/uu_ini_status_audios.pl?tmp_sid=b742be1d131c4d32237a9f1fcdca659e&rnd_id=0.2363453360320319
However, I get a 404 ...
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Rewrite URL before passing to proxy Lighttpd
I'm trying to setup a reverse proxy in lighttpd, such that all requests (and only those requests) under /mobile/video is redirected to the / directory of a secondary web server. This is pretty easy in ...
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Will my URL stay secret if I never link to it?
I have a URL that I would like to share with my friend who needs the information on it, but I do not want the public to see it.
The URL refers to an index.html, which is in my public_html and ...
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Is it ok to not use 'www' in my website subdomain url?
We have a website that is a subdomain of our primary domain, such as site.example.com. The official URL of the website is http://site.example.com, but some people keep referring to it as www.site....
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ISA wrong translation of the schema URL included in WSDL
I have a WSDL behind ISA server. The WSDL includes a schema
<xsd:include schemaLocation="myschema.xsd"/>
However, when accessed through ISA, some implicit mapping changes the server name to the ...
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Is there a limit on the length of URLs when using Amazon ELBs? If so, is there a way to increase it?
We appear to be encountering an error due to Amazon ELBs truncating a long (over 1K characters) URL.
I have searched through the usual suspects, but can't find any discussion of URL length limits for ...
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Faster way to ping URL than curl [closed]
What would be the fastest way to check whether the specified URL is working? (responding in OK http status code)?
For now I'm using curl, but I have bunch of URLs to test in a loop, so I'm looking ...
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How to pass Question Mark (?) in password for HTTP Basic Authentication in URL parameters?
I am automating a website which requires HTTP Basic Authentication.
The suggestions given in this link work like a charm in most cases:
Can you pass user/pass for HTTP Basic Authentication in URL ...
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What MIME type should I put for Windows shortcut file (.URL)
If I want to have a Windows shortcut file (foo.URL) to be saved for the users, what MIME type should I assign for it?
Default text/plain causes Windows to suggest it to be saved with .txt added as ...
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Django rewrites URL as IP address in browser - why?
I am using django, nginx and apache. When I access my site with a URL (e.g., http://www.foo.com/) what appears in my browser address is the IP address with admin appended (e.g., http://123.45.67.890/...
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What does the "//" in "http://serverfault.com/questions/ask" stand for?
I use URLs all the time typing them in with and without "//" after the "http:" but what does the "//" really stand for?
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Domain name change with minimum seo impact
I am owner of an existing (3 yr. old) domain http://www.22shrutiharmonium.com and my website appears at the top of the search results in case of some search phrases like "22 shruti" , "22 shruti ...
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Block specific URL in HAProxy / url-encoding
I'm trying to restrict access to a specific URL. It should not allowed to access /admin.php.
frontend example
acl restricted_page path_beg -i /admin\.php
http-request deny if restricted_page
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How to change the URL on my Amazon EC2 webserver
I am at the point in playing around with EC2 that I have launched a webserver. Right now, the website URL looks like http://ec2-<some numbers>.compute-1.amazonaws.com/
I am evaluating the ...
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Redirecting http://www.example.com/index.html to http://www.example.com/ (without looping)
For aesthetic reasons (I prefer when there is a strict one-to-one mapping between URL and pages), I do not like the fact that http://www.example.com/index.html and http://www.example.com/ yield the ...
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HAProxy Specific URI
So my HAProxy configuration is similar to this.
listen webaustin 0.0.0.0:80
mode http
timeout connect 12000
timeout server 60000
timeout queue 120000
balance roundrobin
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How check in nginx for query_string parameters?
How I can write a condition in the nginx config testing if a q parameter was entered in the URL?
This doesn't work:
if ($arg_q) {
return 301 "/someurl";
}
It catches URLs like
/search?...
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URL rewrite in IIS 7
I have a question. I'm using IIS 7 URL rewrite. It works fine, but now I want this:
http://www.example.com/http://www.domain.com
to be:
http://www.example.com/www.domain.com
I have no clue on how ...
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How to redirect root to subdirectory while maintaining URL in the address bar
I have an nginx setup with folder structure like this:
- www
|- splash
|- blog
www is the root folder.
I would like to redirect users who access http://example.com to the splash folder.
But I ...
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Is websocket reverse proxy possible with IIS 8.5 & URL rewrite 2.0?
I installed Tomcat as a java app server behind IIS. Using the following rules I can rewrite static pages just fine, but alas, websocket connections are never established:
<?xml version="1.0" ...
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Redirect www from DNS records
Related to this question: What’s the point in having “www” in a URL?
How can I do a “www” redirection form a DNS record level? I don’t want to tweak apache or IIS to achieve this.
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How to add URL's to wiki (MediaWiki) powered documentation?
We have an internal company wiki. The wiki engine being used is MediaWiki, the wiki engine that runs Wikipedia. Some of it contains IT stuff.
One of the things i want want to have are hyperlinks to ...
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I need to configure haproxy with multiple ssl ports
I have two servers which have the same URL but the port number may change.
I want to redirect these two URLs HTTPS.
If I enter my first URL (http://example.com) then I want to it will redirect to ...
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