Connect to URL and dump webpage in Groovy
here is a variation println ‘http://www.google.com’.toURL().text
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What is blob in the ?
That is a youtube video with shaka player which plays DASH content without browser plugins using Media Source Extensions. The blob url is generated by createObjectURL. for example: var video = document.querySelector(‘video’); var assetURL = ‘frag_bunny.mp4’; // Need to be specific for Blink regarding codecs // ./mp4info frag_bunny.mp4 | grep Codec var mimeCodec=”video/mp4; codecs=”avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2″”; … Read more
Whats the difference between a scheme and a protocol in a URL?
My understanding is that the two terms have a significant overlap. The protocol being the agreed upon method of information transfer and the scheme being the identifier that URLs use to express what type of protocol the specific resource should be served over. In short, schemes are simply identifiers for protocols. For example In the … Read more
The origin on why ‘%20’ is used as a space in URLs
It’s called percent encoding. Some characters can’t be in a URI (for example #, as it denotes the URL fragment), so they are represented with characters that can be (# becomes %23) Here’s an excerpt from that same article: When a character from the reserved set (a “reserved character”) has special meaning (a “reserved purpose”) … Read more
Can . (period) be part of the path part of an URL?
I don’t see where RFC1738 disallows periods (.) in URLs. Here are some excerpts from there: hpath = hsegment *[ “https://stackoverflow.com/” hsegment ] hsegment = *[ uchar | “;” | “:” | “@” | “&” | “=” ] uchar = unreserved | escape unreserved = alpha | digit | safe | extra safe = “$” … Read more
Passing a parameter via URL to SQL Server Reporting Services
First, be sure to replace Reports/Pages/Report.aspx?ItemPath= with ReportServer?. In other words, instead of this: http://server/Reports/Pages/Report.aspx?ItemPath=/ReportFolder/ReportSubfolder/ReportName Use this syntax: http://server/ReportServer?/ReportFolder/ReportSubfolder/ReportName Parameters can be referenced or displayed in a report using @ParameterName, whether they’re set in the report or in the URL. You can attach parameters to the URL with &ParameterName=Value. To hide the toolbar where parameters … Read more
How to change the URL from “localhost” to something else, on a local system using wampserver?
WINDOWS + WAMP solution Step 1 Go to C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.17\conf\ open httpd.conf file and change #Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf to Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf i.e. uncomment the line so that it can includes the virtual hosts file. Step 2 Go to C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.17\conf\extra and open httpd-vhosts.conf file and add the following code <VirtualHost myWebsite.local> DocumentRoot “C:/wamp/www/myWebsite/” ServerName myWebsite.local ServerAlias myWebsite.local <Directory … Read more
Example of a URI that isn’t a URL?
Example stolen from here (where there is also a description of the differences): URL http://www.pierobon.org/iis/review1.htm URN www.pierobon.org/iis/review1.htm#one URI http://www.pierobon.org/iis/review1.htm.html#one
Difference between URL and URI? [duplicate]
URI: Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a string of characters used to identify a name or a resource on the Internet. Such identification enables interaction with representations of the resource over a network (typically the World Wide Web) using specific protocols URL: In computing, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a subset of the Uniform … Read more
What is “shva” in Gmail’s URL?
The acronym stands for “Should have valid authentication” as noted here: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/07/gmails-shva-parameter.html As others have noted, 1 is the default value.