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URL rewriting that visibly rewrites (changes the URL in the address bar)

I asked sort of the complement of this question before: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1685030/modrewrite-invisibly Now I actually want a rewrite to happen visibly, because I've switched URL schemes and although I want the old links to work, I want the user to see the new URL scheme. So this works RewriteRule ^oldscheme/(.*)/?$ ...

Java equivalent of Pythons urllib.urlencode(HashMap based UrlEncode)

From Whats the java equivalent of Python’s urllib.urlencode? Like >>> urllib.urlencode({'abc':'d f', 'def': '-!2'}) 'abc=d+f&def=-%212' Where I can pass a HashMap of key values and it encodes and gives me the url string .. Edit: I wanted to avoid this scenario String data = URLEncoder.encode("key1", "UTF-8") + "=" + URLEncoder.en...

HTAccess - Confusing clean url's

Hey, If i wanted to simply redirect /clients/page/ to /clients.php?view=page i would use something as simple as this, it works great. Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^clients/([^/]+) /clients.php?section=$1&$2 [NC] If i had for example, a url like: /clients/page/?name=Tom how could i transfer those HTTP GET varia...

using Request.UrlReferrer in vb.net code

i saw this article on msdn forum about Request.UrlReferrer but didnt really understand it well. I need to use this property in one of my pages to see where the user is coming from. My case is if the user comes from certain page, i need to have an if condition and should open up a popup as well as redirect page to next page. if the Reques...

QUrl does not parse host name with underscore

Hi, Today I found that in Qt 4.6, QUrl would not parse a url if the host name contains the underscore. I understand that according to the standard, underscore is not allowed in the domain name, however, there ARE some urls with underscores, especially for some subdomain. For example, i came across this feed's url: http://hero_hki.mys...

Link to Homepage is forwardslash

Im have the default routing and write a link to the Homepage in my view <a href="<%=Url.Action("Index" ,"Home")%>">Link</a> The generated content is a forward slash. <a href="/">Link</a> This link works in Firefox but in IE8 no request is sent to the server when the link is clicked. Is a forward slash a valid content in a link? ...

How to best normalize URLs

I'm creating a site that allows users to add Keyword --> URL links. I want multiple users to be able to link to the same url (exactly the same, same object instance). So if user 1 types in "http://www.facebook.com/index.php" and user 2 types in "http://facebook.com" and user 3 types in "www.facebook.com" how do I best "convert" them to...

ASP.NET Postback and URLs

I have a page that requires the user to go through several steps, however step is performed on the same ASPX page with different panels being displayed. However this is a requirement that each step has a different URL, this could be a simple as a query string parameter, for example: Step 1: /member/signup.aspx?step=1 Step 2: /member/s...

Double slashes in urls in Outlook

The url of our search page is build like this: http://www.example.com/results/name/John/city/Miami/gender/Male This would display every male named John in Miami. When one of the filters is left empty, the url would be something like this: http://www.example.com/results/name/John/city//gender/Male So there are two slashes in the url. ...

ASP.NET - Avoid hardcoding paths

I'm looking for a best practice solution that aims to reduce the amount of URLs that are hard-coded in an ASP.NET application. For example, when viewing a product details screen, performing an edit on these details, and then submitting the changes, the user is redirected back to the product listing screen. Instead of coding the followin...

Regular Expression for URL

The regular expression posted below is used to pick up URLs, including ones in the format such as example.com. However, I want it only to pick up on URLs that have a www. or http, https, etc. in the front. In other words, it should pick up www.example.com. It should not pick up example.com. ((((ht|f)tp(s?))\://)?((www.|[a-zA-Z])([a-zA-Z...

how to block http requests to some web-pages from adobe air.

Is it any way to prevent user to go to specific web-pages using Adobe AIR framework. I want this software to run at startup and not allowing user to surf some web parts. I want to use Adobe AIR beacause of its crossplatform capabilities. ...

Prepare a string for Google Ajax Search?

I have strings such as ["Tabula Rasa", "façade", "DJ Tiësto"] I'm accessing Google Ajax API in Python using the base url: base = 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web' '?v=1.0&q=%s' I'm having issues using these strings plain and noticed I have to transform certain characters, eg. "Tabula Rasa" --> "Tabula%20Ra...

How to open print version of the site in a new page with jsf?

I need to make a link which opens print version of current page in a new tab. I already have correspondent css-file. But I don't know how to specify when this file should be used instead of standard. The simplest way is quite good. If I was using JSP I would simply add get parameter to print-link URL. Is there any way to achieve similar...

Changing the order of params in pagination links

I am using Cakephp to perform a search through sphinx. I wanted to do modify the default structre of pagination links generated by cakephp For example From: localhost/search/page:1/key1:google/key2:code To: localhost/search/key1:google/key2:code/page:1 I want the page number to appear at the end. Is there a way this can be do...

Django + NGINX URL Problem

I have set up Django's FastCGI + NGINX, but it's only working for root url: any request to http://example.com/anything redirects to http://example.com. Django's internal server working fine, NGINX static file serving and FastCGI processing of the root URL is fine, error log is clear. Here is my config's server section: server { ...

How should i sanitize urls so people don't put 漢字 or á or other things in them?

How should i sanitize urls so people don't put 漢字 or other things in them? EDIT: I'm using java. The url will be generated from a question the user asks on a form. It seems StackOverflow just removed the offending characters, but it also turns an á into an a. Is there a standard convention for doing this? Or does each developer just ...

how post and get specialchars in url?

how post and get "&" symbol in url? in php. please help me ........ ...

Is it right to say that paths are represented as URI while web-addresses are represented as URL?

I am confused by Apple's documentation about the NSURL class. In NSURL, they say the following: NSURL understands URLs in style of RFC 1808, 1738 und 2732 NSURL understands URIs in style of RFC 2396 Also they say that the RFC 2396 URI are paths. Now what's the difference here? Isn't a path also an URL? I mean, it's an location or n...

Is a path in the Url Loading System of Cocoa always an URL, or sometimes an URI?

I don't get it: An URL is something that really "locates" a ressource, i.e. it holds enough information to say "man, go here, then there, and you have it!" ...while an URI can say "the file is called foobar.foo ... have fun finding it!" Or am I wrong? Can the URL loading system handle URI's? How would that look in example? For me it doe...