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URL: Directory like or Pages with extension

If you look at the url of the stackoverflow.com you can see that the url is like: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1284899/designing-a-website-for-both-javascript-script-support-and-not-support or some very popular websites like wikipedia have the same format (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQ) ...

Struts2 dynamic parameter name in redirect-action

I'm successfully using a redirect-action for one of my struts2 mapping files as follows: <action name="setAsCurrentCart" class="com.fmp.MyAction"> <result name="success" type="redirect-action"> <param name="actionName">myOtherAction</param> <param name="foo">${foo}</param> </result> <interceptor-ref name="defaultComponentS...

mod rewrite in Expression Engine: removing directory in URL

Hello, I am working in expression engine CMS and I have some rewrite code to remove the index.php from the URL but on some of my URLs I want to remove the directory /site/ before the file name. Like I have /site/pennsylvania_attorneys.html I want to remove the site part and just have it read /pennsylvania_attorneys.html The current m...

How to get the URL to a configurable item in Magento?

I am using magento and creating a product finder. Is there a way I can link to a configurable item example: mystore.com/bedding-sheets lets say I want to send a friend a link to the sheet that is 250*250cm i would think the link was maybe: mystore.com/bedding-sheets?attribute496=1 (except this is not the case) <dl class="last"> <dt...

Regular expression to find URLs not inside a hyperlink

There's many regex's out there to match a URL. However, I'm trying to match URLs that do not appear anywhere within a <a> hyperlink tag (HREF, inner value, etc.). So NONE of the URLs in these should match: <a href="http://www.example.com/"&gt;something&lt;/a&gt; <a href="http://www.example.com/"&gt;http://www.example2.com&lt;/a&gt; <...

Url format for internationalized web app?

Scenario The web server gets a request for http://domain.com/folder/page. The Accept-Language header tells us the user prefers Greek, with the language code el. That's good, since we have a Greek version of page. Now we could do one of the following with the URL: Return a Greek version keeping the current URL: http://domain.com/folde...

How in ASP.NET MVC to change Url.Encode character replacement strategy?

I'm using Url.Encode within a view and it's replacing spaces with + so instead of: /production/cats-the-musical I'm getting .../cats+the+musical. I'm sure this is an easy one, but where do you go to configuring which characters are used for this? I'll be doing this: public static string EncodeForSEO(this UrlHelper helper, string unen...

Displaying a page in Firefox without opening a new tab

I'm writing an editor that is updating a WYSIWYG view in the browser. As this update can happen often i don't want to open the page in a new tab. Is there any way other then using the ugly way of emitting keystrokes to enter the Open URL command and entering the URL (I'm doing this right now, but it's buggy if the user interacts with the...

Precalculate ASP.NET Embedded WebRessource Url

Hi I have the following Problem. In a Assembly there are Ressources which are exported via "WebRessource" Attribute Ok. I know that the through the Method GetWebRessourceUrl i can find out the Ressource Url but this happens basically at Runtime. I need this Resource Url at Compiletime. Why? Because i have a Javascript which calls so...

Browser and external app communication? (Chrome's current url and referrer on Windows?)

How might an external program communicate with a browser? Hopefully this will be of some use to others: I'm listing off a number of options I've seen or tried while unsuccessfully getting this to work. If you know of others, please post them. If Mac, use AppleScript (info/solution at q.263741, try this search) Use or create an extensio...

Does URL design affect page rank in search engine results?

I am especially interested in Google search results. Some web-sites use category IDs in their URLs while others use a more contemporary method of "friendly urls". I.e: Old URLs: mywebsite.com/23151/32/ New URLs: mywebsite.com/my-category/my-page If the new method is used, is the page's rank going to increase? (provided that all other ...

How can to launch the Mail app from within my app?

How do I launch the iPhone Mail app (with a Photo attachment) from within my app? (Photo is a UIImage in my app). ...

c# get complete URL with "#"

I have run into a trivial(?) problem when trying to get the whole URL of a c# page. The url contains the "#"-link ref char. And i would like that to when I grab the URL Eg. http://localhost/site/page.aspx?var=1&amp;var=2#link I have tried Request.URL, Request.Querystring etc, it only returns up to the "#"-char. Is there any way to gr...

How to match URL in c#?

I have found many examples of how to match particular types of URL-s in PHP and other languages. I need to match any URL from my C# application. How to do this? When I talk about URL I talk about links to any sites or to files on sites and subdirectiories and so on. I have a text like this: "Go to my awsome website http:\www.google.pl\s...

URL shortening: using inode as short name?

The site I am working on wants to generate its own shortened URLs rather than rely on a third party like tinyurl or bit.ly. Obviously I could keep a running count new URLs as they are added to the site and use that to generate the short URLs. But I am trying to avoid that if possible since it seems like a lot of work just to make this o...

Dynamic URL management with javascript

I have a search page which allows users to further filter thier results based on criteria within a certain set. You start a search by searching for all items within a "tag". The URL created for this would look like search/index?tag=TagA On the page there are a list of tags that are also in this result set. What I want is so in this...

CDN and URL's with query-strings

We have an images folder on our web servers that we may publish via a CDN. Sometimes we append query-string like syntax to URL's to help us freshen content that has changed, even though it rarely does. Example: /images/file.png?20090821 will URL's like this work with your average content-delivery-network? ...

[Zend Framework] Redirecting user back to originally desired URL after login

Example: User is not logged in User has items in their shopping cart User goes to /checkout User is redirected to the /login page User logs in successfully and should be redirected back to the /checkout page How does the login action know to redirect the user to checkout in this case? I want this to work in many different situation...

Creating a POST with url elisp package in emacs: utf-8 problem

Hello everyone. I'm currently creating a Rest client for making blog posts much in the spirit of pastie.el. The main objective is for me to write a textile in emacs and make a post to a Rails application that will create it. It is working fine until I type anything in either spanish or japanese, then I get a 500 error. pastie.el has this...

How do sites like tinyurl generate urls?

I looked at tinyurl, tinypic, imgur and youtube! I thought they would use a text safe representation of a index and use it as a primary ID in their DB. However trying to put the keys into Convert.FromBase64String("key") yields no results and throw an exception. So these sites dont use a base64 array. What are they using? What might i wan...