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Is there any 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, so its not like I'm violating cross-domain policies.
window.location.href = "www.mysite.com/page2.php"; // sadly this reloads
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What is the maximum length of a URL in different browsers? Does it differ between browsers?
Does the HTTP protocol dictate it?
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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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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:
"http://MyUrl.com/Images/Image.jpg"
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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, earlier this year it was just a normal URL-fragment-like string (starting with #), without the exclamation mark. But now it's a shebang or hashbang (#!), which I've previously only seen in shell scripts and Perl scripts.
The new Twitter URLs now also feature the #! symbols. A Twitter profile URL, for example, now looks like this:
http://twitter.com/#!/BoltClock
Does #! now play some special role in URLs, like for a certain Ajax framework or something since the new Facebook and Twitter interfaces are now largely Ajaxified? Would using this in my URLs benefit my Web application in any way?
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Java EE has ServletRequest.getParameterValues().
On non-EE platforms, URL.getQuery() simply returns a string.
What's the normal way to properly parse the query string in a URL when not on Java EE?
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It is popular in the answers to try and make your own parser. This is very interesting and exciting micro-coding project, but I cannot say that it is a good idea :(
The code snippets below are generally flawed or broken, btw. Breaking them is an interesting exercise for the reader. And to the hackers attacking the websites that use them.
Parsing query strings is a well defined problem but reading the spec and understanding the nuances is non-trivial. It is far better to let some platform library coder do the hard work, and do the fixing, for you!
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Dave Ward says,
It’s not exactly light reading, but section 4.2 of RFC 3986 provides for fully qualified URLs that omit protocol (the HTTP or HTTPS) altogether. When a URL’s protocol is omitted, the browser uses the underlying document’s protocol instead.
Put simply, these “protocol-less” URLs allow a reference like this to work in every browser you’ll try it in:
//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js
It looks strange at first, but this “protocol-less” URL is the best way to reference third party content that’s available via both HTTP and HTTPS.
This would certainly solve a bunch of mixed-content errors we're seeing on HTTP pages -- assuming that our assets are available via both HTTP and HTTPS.
Is this completely cross-browser compatible? Are there any other caveats?
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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 web.
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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 always the real path of the file.
What I need is to get the URL, what is written in the URL, nothing more and nothing less—the full URL.
I need to get how it appears in the Navigation Bar in the web browser, and not the real path of the file on the server.
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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/index.html?url=" + myUrl;
I assume that you need to encode the myUrl variable on that second line?
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How do I get the website URL?
Not the URL as taken from a link. On the loading page, I want to get the full, current URL of the current web page and store its value in a variable.
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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 urlAsString is replaced by http%3A%2F%2F in encodedURL and then I get a java.net.MalformedURLException when I use the URL.
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In my project I need the Google cache age to be added as important information. I tried to search sources for the Google cache age, that is, the number of days since Google last re-indexed the page listed.
Where can I get the Google cache age?
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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=random%20word%20%A3500%20bank%20%24
What's the best way to achieve this? I tried URLEncoder and creating URI/URL objects but none of them come out quite right.
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How would I have a JavaScript action that may have some effects on the current page but would also change the URL in the browser so if the user hits reload or bookmark the new URL is used?
It would also be nice if the back button would reload the original URL.
I am trying to record JavaScript state in the URL.
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