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How can I have lowercase routes in ASP.NET MVC?

How can I have lowercase, plus underscore if possible, routes in ASP.NET MVC? So that I would have /dinners/details/2 call DinnersController.Details(2) and, if possible, /dinners/more_details/2 call DinnersController.MoreDetails(2)? All this while still using patterns like "{controller}/{action}/{id}". ...

Pythonic URL Parsing

There are a number of questions about how to parse a URL in Python, this question is about the best or most Pythonic way to do it. In my parsing I need 4 parts: the network location, the first part of the URL, the path and the filename and querystring parts. http://www.somesite.com/base/first/second/third/fourth/foo.html?abc=123 ...

how to display twitter images with strange urls in flash ?

I am parsing the public timeline xml from twitter and want to display images next to the statuses. The problem is some image urls contain strange characters: e.g. http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/68803670/Gryn_i_h%E4ngmattan_normal.jpg Some of the characters can be replaced with urlencode, but I have no idea...

ASP.NET HTTPS and RelativeUrls

I have a site with an SSL cert for www.foo.com. What is the cleanest way redirect requests to the https:// prefix? Do I have to build links server side instead of relying on resolving urls with relative paths, ~/? Also, say I redirect to an https:// page, the links on the page are all created in a master page and are resolved with r...

Is there a good url builder for Java?

Is there a good url builder for java? ...

Does rewriting a URL help a search engine find the page?

My URLs look like "/pages.php?page=pageName" because I am using a database to supply the page's content. Does rewriting URLs to something like "/pageName" help search engines find the pages? If so how do I rewrite them? ...

Url filtering

I'm looking for way to verify whether a site is categorized in any url filtering databases. Does somebody know such database with free API? ...

nginx proxy_pass weird url escaping ? (try it)

The original URL is: http://www.sitmo.com/gg/latex/latex2png.2.php?z=100&eq=%5Ccos%20%7Bx%7D%2B%5Csin%20%7Bx%7D%3DCV For some sandbox flash security reason i need to create a proxy on my domain, location /latex_gen/ { proxy_pass http://www.sitmo.com/gg/latex/latex2png.2.php?z=100&eq=; } Which now points to h...

Descriptive URLs vs. Basic URLs

I have a website and I'm employing Clean URLs to all of the links. I'm wondering what the opinion is about short, basic URLs versus longer, descriptive URLs. For instance, if my website was about Georgia Bulldog football news, which would be better for SEO purposes? http://www.example.com/news or http://www.example.com/georgia-bulldo...

Using xpath/xslt to get the anchor part of the page url

Hi I'm writing a template in xslt with xpath 1.0 and need to access the anchor tag from the url of the current page. For example, the url: http://localhost/destinations/london.aspx#accommodation I need to be able to get #accommodation and assign it to a variable. I realise I'm somewhat limited by using xpath 1.0 - has anyone got any e...

Can't Add Slash with .htaccess

I have a site with some html files on it. One of them is contact.html. This is my .htaccess, and I'm having problems where I can address the page with site.com/contact, but not site.com/contact/. (Note ending slash.) What's the fix? RewriteEngine On # If the requested URI does not contain a period in the final path-part RewriteCond %{R...

If you use https will your url params will be safe from sniffing?

Suppose I setup a simple php web server with a page that can be accessed by https. The url has simple parameters like https://www.example.com/test?abc=123. Is it true that the parameter here in this case will be safe from people sniffing the packets? And would this be true if the server does not employ any SSL certificate? ...

removing given website urls from content

Hi, i have a wordpress blog and several authors. i want to auto remove some website urls from my blog content. For example i don't want ANY myspace urls in post content, not only myspace.com than myspace.com/whatever or myspace.com/faq.html... Is that possible to do that with some php codes or adding some codes to .htaccess file ? Than...

change url of tab javascript firefox extension

I am trying to change the url of a currently open tab in javascript firefox extension Any pointers please? ...

Make an NSURL with an encoded plus (%2B)

I need to pass a timestamp with a timezone offset in a GET request, e.g., 2009-05-04T11:22:00+01:00 This looks like a two arguments "2009-05-04T11:22:00" and "01:00" to the receiving PHP script (over which I've no control). NSURL doesn't encode plus signs, but if I make an NSURL using the string 2009-05-04T11:22:00%2B01:00 t...

Get QueryString values with jQuery

Is there a plugin-less way of retreiving querystring values via jQuery? if so how, and if not what plugin do you recommend? ...

How to get long URL from short URL?

Using Ruby, how do I convert the short URLs (tinyURL, bitly etc) to the corresponding long URLs? ...

Absolute urls, relative urls, and...?

I am writing some documentation and I have a little vocabulary problem: http://www.somedomain.com/en/public/img/logo.gif is called an "absolute" url, right? ../../public/img/logo.gif is called a "relative" url, right? so how do you call this: /en/public/img/logo.gif ? Is it also considered an "absolute url", although without the prot...

Django url template tage and variable values with dot (.)

why doesn't {% url myVar %} where myVar = 'jack.johnson' doesn't work ? The view is fine, the urls.py is: url(r'^(?P[A-Za-z0-9-._]+)/$', overview, name='user_profile'), ...

Django admin url.py

Hi all, Im following the Django tutorial, and ive got up to part 4. But when i went back to have a look at my admin page it mysteriously didnt work anymore. So i messed around a bit more and came up with this. from django.conf.urls.defaults import * from django.contrib import admin admin.autodiscover() urlpatterns = patterns('', ...