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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Standard for singular vs plural type names in urls
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 URL with a / as a separator should you use a…
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Is Origin the common agreed name for protocol + hostname (+ port)?
Is Origin the common agreed name for protocol + hostname (+ port)?
I know it is in JavaScript (not supported in IE), but I can't really find the word Origin back in other sources on the internet.
Is there an official name for this part of the…
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Hebrew filenames in the URL
We have a CMS that enables users to upload images and flashes to their site.
Sometimes the filenames are in Hebrew.
In our development server there is no problem, but in our production server we get a 404 error when the filename ends with Hebrew…
Lea Cohen
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How come I can only visit the subdomain if I include the index.php in the address?
How come I can only visit the subdomain, e.g. subdomain.domain.com, if I include index.php?
subdomain.domain.com, doesn't work.
subdomain.domain.com/index.php works.
do I have to change something in the httpd.conf file?
I'm sorry if that's a stupid…
user94142
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Why is "www" still used in a URL?
I know how www.example.com can be different from example.com. But is there really a need? Most of the time we end up setting both, www.example.com and example.com to the same IP. Is it still used only to make it more readable!?
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How to create a unique URL that does not hide the actual URL?
I'm putting a banner ad in a newsletter. I want to be able to track hits from that ad. To do so, I need the ad to direct to a unique URL, but I don't want the URL to be deceptive (ie. a bit.ly URL).
Is there a tag or something else I can attach to…
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Jekyll: How to serve a custom URL available locally
I have a Jekyll blog, that I serve locally (i.e. bundle exec jekyll serve at 127.0.0.1:4000/)
I want to use a custom URL that is available locally (in the computers of my LAN). For example thisisatest.yesitis. If I add to my _config.yml file host: …
jlo
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Empty href tag returns current url on remote server
I left a few href tags without values. However after deploying the application to a remote server, those tags get filled with the url corresponding to the app location on that server.
So, if my application lived at http://www.foo.org/, href = ""…
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Why doesn't my homepage URL contain a trailing slash in the browser address bar?
When I visit my homepage https://example.com/ in a web browser, the trailing slash doesn't appear in the URL when I view it in the browser address bar:
https://example.com
However, if I now copy the address from the browser address bar (which is…
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What's behind a URL?
What are the parts that make up a url? I'm kinda confused about how a "url" works. I understand it's a "path" to a location on the internet, but what do they mean?
For example: serverfault.com
serverfault is in relation I assume the name of the page…
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