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Download single files from GitHub

September 7, 2022 by Tarik

Go to the file you want to download. Click it to view the contents within the GitHub UI. In the top right, right click the Raw button. Save as…

URL encoding the space character: + or %20?

September 7, 2022 by Tarik

From Wikipedia (emphasis and link added): When data that has been entered into HTML forms is submitted, the form field names and values are encoded and sent to the server in an HTTP request message using method GET or POST, or, historically, via email. The encoding used by default is based on a very early … Read more

Linking to an external URL in Javadoc?

September 6, 2022 by Tarik

This creates a “See Also” heading containing the link, i.e.: /** * @see <a href=”http://google.com”>http://google.com</a> */ will render as: See Also: http://google.com whereas this: /** * See <a href=”http://google.com”>http://google.com</a> */ will create an in-line link: See http://google.com

Get the full URL in PHP

September 6, 2022 by Tarik

Have a look at $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’], i.e. $actual_link = “http://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]”; (Note that the double quoted string syntax is perfectly correct) If you want to support both HTTP and HTTPS, you can use $actual_link = (isset($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) && $_SERVER[‘HTTPS’] === ‘on’ ? “https” : “http”) . “://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]”; Editor’s note: using this code has security implications. The client can … Read more

What is the best regular expression to check if a string is a valid URL?

September 6, 2022 by Tarik

I wrote my URL (actually IRI, internationalized) pattern to comply with RFC 3987 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3987.html). These are in PCRE syntax. For absolute IRIs (internationalized): 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To also allow relative IRIs: 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