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download a web page with objective-c

How can i download the html content of a webpage given an url? using objective c.. ...

URL parse function

Hello, Given this variable: $variable = foo.com/bar/foo What function would trim $variable to foo.com ? Edit: I would like the function to be able to trim anything on a URL that could possibly come after the domain name. Thanks in advance, John ...

How to encode URL in JavaScript and PHP?

I want to send a URL in a POST request in a variable called surl. How should I encode it in JavaScript and decode it in PHP? For example, the value of surl could be http://www.google.co.in/search?q=javascript+urlencode+w3schools. EDIT Sorry, I forgot to mention, it's not form submission but a ajax request. ...

How to implement Friendly URL in Liferay portal

Hi, I have to simplify the URL. I am using liferay portal. URL at present look like this: http://10.11.201.144:8080/web/guest/marketing?p_p_id=EXT_6&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_count=1&_EXT_6_pageName=aboutus I need to simplify it like: http://10.11.201.144:8080/...

magento category urls

I'm getting "-1" appended to some of my category urls. e.g. bedroom.html becomes bedroom-1.html. How do I stop this happening and correct the current ones. Thanks. ...

noob's problem with mod rewrite and relative urls

I must be doing something terribly wrong because no matter how i try or google it, i can't find an answer :( So, i want to have a url like http://localhost/BLUEPRINT/list/857 to actually load a perfectly working url like this: http://localhost/BLUEPRINT/list.php?lid=857 I can write the rewrite rule in the .htaccess file and i can read ...

How can I extract just the scheme, host, and port from a URL in Perl?

I need to be able to extract just the scheme, host, and port from a URL. So if my url in the browser is: http://www.example.com:80/something.pl I need to be able to get the: http://www.example.com:80 ...

How can I make URLs in Django similar to stackoverflow?

I'm creating a video site. I want my direct urls to a video to look like example.com/watch/this-is-a-slug-1 where 1 is the video id. I don't want the slug to matter though. example.com/watch/this-is-another-slug-1 should point to the same page. On SO, /questions/id is the only part of the url that matters. How can I do that? ...

Ruby open-uri, returns error when opening a png URL

I am making a crawler parsing images on the Gantz manga at http://manga.bleachexile.com/gantz-chapter-1.html and on. I had success until my crawler tried to open a image (on chapt 273): bad URI(is not URI?): http://static.bleachexile.com/manga/gantz/273/Gantz[0273]_p001[Whatever-Illuminati].png BUT this url is valid I guess, because I...

regex for URL including query string

I thought this would be a simple google search but apparently not. What is a regex I can use in C# to parse out a URL including any query string from a larger text? I have spent lots of time and found lots of examples of ones that don't include the query string. And I can't use System.URI, because that assumes you already have the URL...

URL rewrite, getting error

I am having this in a .htaccess: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^videos/([0-9]+)/?$ vis_film.php?id=$1 [NC,L] My page is root/directory/directory/videos/vis_film.php?id=2 but i want it to be root/directory/directory/videos/2/ And ive placed the .htaccess file inside videos/, is that right? and what have i done wrong? ...

Is there a standard date/time format that can be passed on a URL?

Looking at the DateTimeFormatInfo documentation, it appears that all the standard formats have colons in them, which makes passing them on a url unpleasant/impossible. Is there a standardized format for passing a datetime on a url, preferably one that can be automatically parsed by .NET? Update: A little clarification The consumer o...

Email id in URL?

Is there any issues with having one's email id in the URL for a web application? a) Technically, is this an issue? b) Or is it some kind of convention to NOT have the email id in the URL? And rather have something like /user/:id? ...

Full HTTP URL vs document root URL performances

I noticed a performance degradation when in my webpages I use the full HTTP URL to load an image. Let's say my website is on mydomain.com. Let's say images are all in mydomain.com/imgs directory. It seems it's slower when I place images in the webpage using the full URL format: <img src="http://mydomain.com/imgs/someimg.jpg"&gt; ra...

Why does java.net.URL's hashcode resolve the host to an IP?

Is the idea after the first resolution it'll rely on OS caching? Still this seems inefficient and in cases of multiple domains resolving to the same IP, incorrect. What am I missing? ...

What can I do if django runserver seems to be caching my urls.py and settings.py?

I detected this problem when updating the patterns in URLConf and seeing that the new pattern wasn't matched anywhere. So, with urls.py I don't get anywhere when writing random lines on it, I mean, invalid code, and django doesn't throw any exception and serves the urls just fine. So I checked ROOT_URLCONF in settings.py, and it points...

Optimal SEO-friendly URL structure for a large database-driven website?

Our site contains several thousand company profiles with each profile containing numerous pieces of information driven by our dbase. Wondering what is the optimal URL structure from an SEO perspective of the choices outlined below given that we'll have thousands of such profiles? If none of the below, open to other suggestions. Option...

Hide/Show <div> according to URL in Prototype

Hi Guys, I am trying to use the prototype framework to hide a '< div >' based on a particular URL. I don't have access to server side - so I have no choice but to do this using prototype [restriction of platform using prototype]. Wondering if someone could tell me how to do this in prototype framework ? i.e. I tried to do this but doe...

redirect urls - possible ?

I want to redirect http://abc.example.com to other external site abc.blog.com but i dont want to change the url from which i redirected. It should remain the same, i tried using dns but not working. Kindly guide me with each and every step. If its possible with htacces then how ? ...

Problem with greek url characters in IE

Hi all, I'm using the following script in my website in order to create pagination "next-previous" functionality. It's a actually a Dreamweaver's code. The script uses the url to get some values and then it re-creates it. The result url in IE7 and IE8 contains non-readable characters and at the end the page does not work properly. ...