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Why does this URL with excessive preceding dots resolve to an IP address?
Chrome is interpreting the number 1168951531 as a decimal number, which when represented in hexadecimal is 45ACC8EB. 45ACC8EB in hex is the same as the dotted decimal 69.172.200.235, when you take ...
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Disabling URL decoding in nginx proxy
Note that URL decoding, commonly known as $uri "normalisation" within the documentation of nginx, happens before the backend IFF:
either any URI is specified within proxy_pass itself, even if just ...
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HTTP URL Redirection Command Line Trace
Try curl -v -L
There are several tools, you can use from the command line, the most well known of which are curl and wget.
With curl you can follow redirects using the flag -L; additionally, you want ...
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Prevent URL Rewrite rules from being inherited by subdirectories in IIS7
I recently ran into this problem, in a similar situation. But the answer from rjenkins would seem to cause problems with virtual applications that relied on inheritance of parent settings.
If you ...
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Faster way to ping URL than curl
I suspect that any performance increases you'll see are from improving whatever wrapper you're using to make your connections, rather than the overhead of launching curl for each URL. Whether it's ...
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Reg Exp for URL in HAProxy
You need to construct two regex's that are mutually exclusive: only one can be true at a time:
How about if you make the second item be a regex like:
^/path[^/]
The [^/] means "any character that ...
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Block specific URL in HAProxy / url-encoding
As it happens, HAProxy has a converter to decode the field, making sure that your ACL will always match a given string.
url_dec
Takes an url-encoded string provided as input and returns the
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Access server using URL locally without going through Internet
Sounds like it could be a couple problems, DNS mainly
However if you want a quick solution use your local hosts file.
In you local hosts file:
192.168.10.111 MyMachine
If you are running a DNS ...
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How can I access a URL through it's IP address?
The HTTP protocol allows the client application (usually a web browser) to create HTTP requests containing the name of the web site it wants to contact; this allows multiple web sites to coexist on ...
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What's the point in redirecting users to "www2."?
It's used to load balance.
You can use DNS to point www.example.com to one IP, www2.example.com to another IP, www3.example.com to yet another IP and so on and so on. And, in fact, this is how it's ...
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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 received the following answer from AWS Support (formatting mine):
Kindly note that there is a limit for the URI length for all load balancers and as you are getting the 414 error, your GET request ...
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Google bot cannot read my web site
The error message says:
Over the last 24 hours, Googlebot encountered 1 errors while attempting to retrieve DNS information for your site. The overall error rate for DNS queries for your site is 50....
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Is It Technically/Feasibly Possible for a URL to have 3 or More Public Suffix Labels? (eg. test.co.io.example)
Yes, domains with more than 3 labels are common, this is most obvious in educational context, where URLs often look like https://me.institute.place.university.edu.cctld.
(The term TLD is only used to ...
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I need to configure haproxy with multiple ssl ports
The documentation of redirect scheme says
With "redirect scheme", then the "Location" header is built by
concatenating with "://" then the first occurrence of the "Host"
header, and then the ...
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How to do redirect from url to html file without downloading it in nginx
location /this/some/url {
index file.html;
alias /path/to/the/;
}
Please read about alias: https://nginx.ru/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#alias
and about index file: https://nginx....
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Where is "the URL in a HTTP request message"?
The URL is not required to appear anywhere in an HTTP request (except when made to a proxy; see below).
Point 2 in the quote from your book has an error. The URL does not appear in the request line ...
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Empty href tag returns current url on remote server
This is by design.
According to RFC 2396:
A URI reference that does not contain a URI is a reference to the
current document. In other words, an empty URI reference within a
document is ...
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Access server using URL locally without going through Internet
You have a few options.
If you have a local DNS server, create an A record for MyMachine.no-ip.com using the local ip address of your server. The benefit of this solution is that all devices in your ...
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Nginx SSL-rewrite to localhost
Both your https and http servers share the same configuration block, which tells nginx to redirect to https://$server_name$request_uri address. That is the reason for the redirect loop.
You need to ...
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nginx proxy_pass with flexable subpath possible?
Use nginx location and rewrite directives, something like this should be fine:
location ~ ^/sms/ {
rewrite ^/sms/(.*) /api/$1 break;
proxy_pass http://1.2.3.4;
...
}
don't forget to test ...
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How to pass Question Mark (?) in password for HTTP Basic Authentication in URL parameters?
I assume you must be referring to the userinfo part of the URL in which the user credentials are passed, not "URL parameters" (which are part of the query-string):
https://<userinfo>@...
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Standard for singular vs plural type names in urls
To make @Satanicpuppy answer more precise, it's not always true that in *nix system architecture it's always singular. I think in *nix systems, since system admins are mostly accessing it using ...
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Redirect from a URL:80 to another URL:xxxxx with Windows Server 2012 R2
HTTP clients do not know anything about SRV records. You'll need to perform an HTTP 301 Redirect using your webserver.
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What is the reason for redirecting the landing page of a site to a URL with '/#/' at the end?
JavaScript Single-page apps often use a hash to handle navigation within the app (clicking on a link in the application might update the hash to https://example.com/springApp/#/foo/bar, for example). ...
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Why doesn't my homepage URL contain a trailing slash in the browser address bar?
Why on earth do you think the .htaccess file should have anything at all to do with this?
It's a browser behavior and is the same on all sites: If you view the root page of a site, it will only ...
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URL encoded URIs with umlauts not working on other Server
This one really drove me nuts! I doubled checked each and every possible locale setting and found out that each of them was set to UTF-8.
The strangest thing was: Copy/Pasting the url to the address ...
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How can I find the IIS server instance that a website is hosted on in my domain by only its public URL?
Before you start running network scanners on your network, have you actually asked your coworkers for any documentation, wikis, email chains, etc that might give you a better clue?
Assuming no one ...
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different servers on different ports: friendly url?
is there a way to do this?
Yes, the technology you are looking for is a Reverse Proxy.
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How check in nginx for query_string parameters?
Something like this might work. It says "if the query string contains the sequence 'q=' send a redirect". At least that's what I think it says, I'm not great with regex. I've tested it and it works, ...
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Systematically add fragment to URLs
This answer is no longer valid in the context of the original question. I drew too quick conclusions on the subject.
After checking facts, I see that in https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7231 it is ...
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