Questions tagged [url]
uniform resource locator or universal resource locator (URL)
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How to observe requests sent by console application?
I want to monitor what requests some command line tool is making. App itself doesn't show this information only final result. Is there any option to watch the urls to which this application sends ...
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Can't open link in PDF [duplicate]
I'm using the default PDF viewer in Ubuntu 16.04 on a Dell XPS 13 9350. The link is a reference in a technical paper.
I get the error "Unable to open external link, Failed to execute child process "/...
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Clicking an url or a zip file in yakuake/konsole, opens gedit! How to change that? [duplicate]
The url was to a remote zip file, for example
xdg-settings get default-web-browser gives chromium-browser.desktop, so "any?" url should be opened at chromium, not GEdit...
My default zip opener in ...
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gnome-terminal highlight URLs ending in close-paren
When gnome-terminal 3.6.2 highlights a URL ending in ), it incorrectly omits that ). Such URLs are found in wikis with disambiguation pages, such as http://zelda.gamepedia.com/Ocarina_of_Time_(Item), ...
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Clicking link in Thunderbird opens browser but doesn't enter URL
I'm trying to fix this behavior, which isn't the default behavior. Clicking a link in an email message in Thunderbird 45.5.1 under Ubuntu 16 opens my Chromium 55.0 browser, but doesn't enter the URL ...
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How can I add a web browser address bar to lxpanel?
Do you know if there is any way I can add the Firefox address bar to Lubuntu's panels? Or a widget, I don't know. I don't want to disappear with Firefox's bar, just want to open the browser by typing ...
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Copy paste a URL rarely works
Why when I copy paste most of the URLs, to the address field in Chromium or Firefox, the : character is removed and gives an error? I already disabled the search in the address field that avoids other ...
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Path in url to access var/www/html files
What should I type in url to see my lamp files.
In localhost is like "localhost/folder_name/file_name"
Here, should it be something like "192.168.0.1/what_here"?
It goes to my Router page not my lamp ...
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how do I parse this url in ubuntu
I have a url like this
https://vimeo.com/library/videos/angular-fire-theme/table-of-contents
In a bash script I want to parse this url so that I get the text 'angular-fire-theme'
The urls are ...
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How to open a link in browser from gedit?
I have some text files that contains some links/url. I would like to open the link/url in firefox or chrome when I click (left mouse click) the link. Is that possible?
So far I have tried to add a ...
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libreoffice calc: Importing csv full of URL's
I'm importing a CSV full of date, time, URI, etc., into LibreOffice Calc. I'd like the URIs (which point to documents) to be imported as click-able links, but the Fields > Column-Type drop-down on ...
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duplicity: problem parsing WebDAV URLs in bash script
I am not a seasoned Ubuntu admin, so please bear with me if I am missing something obvious...
Many WebDAV-providers supply usernames as "[email protected]". Although this does not seem to be ...
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How to copy multiple urls hidden under texts, by selection in webpages?
I would like to copy urls in a webpage, which are hidden under some texts.
For example the urls under the titles in the table of contents in http://download.racket-lang.org/releases/6.4/doc/guide/.
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Bash script to dynamically find and construct the url and download
I would like to write an script which opens a URL (not a complete URL link) and finds the latest available version of a file. Then, it will go one level up from that directory, find some file in that ...
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Cannot download file using wget
So i am reading The Official Ubuntu Server Book and i just got to the part where i make a pxe boot server. Everything looks good till i am supposed to download some files using wget. The url i entered ...
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I can't change my Apache2 web server Url from Localhost/192.168.0.xxx/127.0.0.1 to something like www.exaple.com
I'm runnig Apache2 webserver,but the only way I can access it is by tapping in in the server browser local host or 127.0.0.1 (or something like that) and 192.168.0.xxx on other devices connected to my ...
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Are all bookmarks saved in Ubuntu Web Browser lost?
During hours of research I regularly bookmarked some important URL's by clicking the star in URL field. But how to find the saved bookmarks back?
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url not found with yii2 advanced template
I set my project on localhost and on staging server. But now i want to move my project on ubuntu server. I tried it but when i try to locate my project it is giving me The requested URL <...
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How to visit a URL when it's offline
Here is the project brief:
I'm setting 3 TVs to the wall of my bakery store to show the menu.
I have mini pc with Ubuntu at the back of my each TVs to send contents.
The way that my mini PCs ...
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Ubuntu installer for Dell laptops?
I found a version of ubuntu on this link: http://linux.dell.com/files/ubuntu/precise/12.04-OSP1/
Can anyone tell me if it is the installer for Dell laptops. Or what is this? :O
Have a nice day guys. ...
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No ':' in the url
Starting fairly recently whenever I open the Minecraft launcher I get this error message
Invalid url: '/home/kailas/Downloads/Minecraft.jar' given, exiting
No ':' in the uri
What does this mean? I ...
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Remove '.php' from url - Nothing works
Ubuntu 14.04LTS 32bit
LAMP
I know it's an old question but..
I need it to remove .php anywhere it finds it from the visible url.
It needs to work with /showthread.php?id=XX ---> /showthread?id=XX
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How can I execute searches via submitting URL (may be with special syntax)?
Can I execute searches via submitting URL (may be with special syntax) rather than typing in words in Google (or other search engine) form?
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Posting images on internet just by pasting link
In Windows, when I was posting an image, I could just post the link with the browse dialog, by putting a url in the location bar. How can I achive the same functionality in Ubuntu with nautilus?
For ...
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What is the protocol to open Software Center with installation page for a selected application?
I need to add install buttons which must open up Ubuntu Software Center with a pre-selected application. Is there a way to do that?
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Twitch Livestream Downloading
Hi guys im not been able to find a solution to this issue and wonder if you can help me. Im looking for a tool that will sit in the background and watch a twitch stream URL and when the live broadcast ...
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URL protocol handlers in basic Ubuntu Desktop
There was a way to register URL protocol handlers with Gconf, which is now obsolete and there seems to be no way to do the same with DConf (or Gsettings, its recommended wrapper).
How do one properly ...
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What editor provides highlighted and clickable hyperlinks? (similar to Notepad++)
I have about a 1000 links in my txt file and I don't want to copy paste them in my browser.
So I am looking for a text editor that highlights URLs and makes them clickable.Please note that I am ...
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gnome-terminal: can't access url from the terminal by single click [duplicate]
I want to access the url that is printed on the command line. For example, if I see the man pages for dropbox, there are some url links with underlines (i.e. https://www.dropbox.com/)--
The only way ...
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How to reset external protocol handler in Chrome?
A while back I selected "Do nothing" when Chrome asked me how to handle a specific url. Now I want Chrome to launch xdg-open, which again can launch the correct application, but I can't figure out how ...
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How to get web-app in taskbar using URL?
I'm really new to Ubuntu and Linux OS, and I have been digging around trying to find the answer to my question.
I want to have a shortcut to a specific URL address in the Unity taskbar (the menu bar ...
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How to recieve call to custom URL handler in Ubuntu Touch QML
I have a QML application that needs to react to a custom URL handler call, like "myapp://something". I know I need to register the URL handler in my *.desktop file as:
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/myapp;...
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where is the browserLoadURL file in Firefox directory in Linux?
I am unable to find the browserLoadURL file in Firefox directory. I want to disable file protocol.
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How to directly download a source package installation package tarball from a URL?
This is my first question. Quick background: I am an undergrad doing a bioinformatics class in which we use Linux. I have minimal background in Linux and I am having an issue with one of the problems ...
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Is it possible to download all mp3s from a domain or URL?
I'd like to download all mp3s from the blog pinchy&friends. I tried the script
for mp3 in "http://www.pinchyandfriends.com/dl.php?mp3=*.mp3"; do
wget "http://www.pinchyandfriends.com/dl.php?...
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fix case sensitive URL
I have been doing some work on my localhost with xampp and I have a link that looks like this
http://localhost/Example
and another one called
http://localhost/example
The actual folder name is ...
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Is there a way to open an appliction from Internet Browser?
I just wonder when I visit apps.ubuntu.com that when I click the banner Available On The Software Center , It Opens the application Software Center.
I just want to know what is the URL for a specific ...
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Get information about a url in terminal
There's this useful command that gets information about a server when you pass it a url that's pointed at the server in question.
I can't remember it though, or find it. It gets the OS of the server, ...
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How to make custom URLs on LAN
i've been trying to find a solution to this for a long time... what i wish to do is create custom URLs on LAN against which users can easily access to some site without using the actual URL e.g.
if ...
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Create a shortcut for URL?
How can I create a shortcut for URL in my desktop? I want to use them in Firefox or Chrome.
If a copy and paste didn't work.
What script I have to use?
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Open URL from Bash script
I have a text file
Google.com
Youtube.com
Gmail.com
Yahoo.com
I am trying to open them with Lynx. Here is the thesis.
I will store all of those links at a txt file, say links.txt and then I need to ...
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Equivalent of .URL file on Ubuntu
An URL link has been saved in *.url file via Windows. If you double click the file in Windows, it will open your default browser to the indicated URL.
Here is an example of *.url file content:
[...
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Downloading contents of the web page
I want to write a python program to download the contents of a web page, and then download the contents of the web pages that the first page links to.
For example, this is main web page http://www....
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How to get the urls of all the packages that an application depends on?
I want to install gnome-shell package without using apt by getting the dependent packages and building them myself so that I won't have to download them the next time I do a fresh install. I want a ...
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Customize xdg-open to open home page without URL
Is it possible to somehow use the xdg-open command to open my home page (google.com) without having to type the url.
What i mean to say is, can i customize
xdg-open http://www.google.com
to ...
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"load" a URL in terminal
I put "load" in quotes because I'm not trying to open up a website via terminal. I have a PHP script on a web server that logs to a text file when it has been loaded. I'd like to set up a cron on a ...
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How does java check version online
i'd like to know how does java check his version when facing an applet online. Does it phonecalls a particular site? How can i get that site?
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How can I find the URL for a flash video in Firefox?
At Nasul TV is a TV recorded show, free.
I want to be able to find the URL for the video and then to use wget to download it. How can I achieve this?
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how to force ssl with default-ssl without DNS?
I know this has been covered everywhere, and I've actually made this work on another server, but I can't seem to get it to work.
I have this
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
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How do I change hyperlink colours in LibreOffice Impress?
I have a lot of Powerpoint slides that I converted to LibreOffice Impress. The resulting hyperlinks are very faded, very hard to see. I can't seem to find any way to change the colour of hyperlinks ...