wiktionary URLURL stands for Uniform Resource Locator . URL may also refer to URL rapper , an Indian musician Unrestricted Line Officer URL, a List of recurring characters in Futurama Officer URL recurring robot character from Futurama Underground Racing League, a fictional racing league in Need for Speed Underground 2 Underground Racing League URL Need for Speed Underground 2 disambig de Url es URL desambiguaci n eo URL apartigilo it URL disambigua pl URL ... more details
The term semantic URL refers to a Uniform Resource Locator URL which is of a form that is immediately and intuitively meaningful to Layman non experts . Such URL schemes tend to reflect the conceptual structure of a collection of information see Information Architecture and Coupling computer science decouple the user interface from a server s internal representation of information. Semantic URLs have become an issue in recent years with the increasing use of server side scripting to power web sites and web services. Non semantic URLs A non semantic URL is typically composed of a Path computing path , script name, and query string . The query string parameters dictate the content that is to be shown on the page, as in the following example nowiki http example.com showproduct.cgi?prodid 3448 nowiki Problems The key issue with non semantic URL is that while the query string parameters can be manipulated by hand, it is not always obvious what their possible values are. For example, many content management systems use a database record number to specify the page. This has a logical meaning only to the database management system , meaning page URLs cannot be inferred by users. Also, if the site ... external sites and removal of search engine listings. How a semantic URL works A semantic URL replaces long query strings with a simple, traditional path structure. For example, the URL shown above ... of this can vary, but most often involves transparently URL rewriting rewriting the semantic URL into the query string form which is understood by the server side software. Because the rewriting takes place on the server side, the semantic URL is the only form seen by the user. Key points ... links references http httpd.apache.org docs trunk mod mod rewrite.html mod rewrite Apache URL rewriting module. http www.useit.com alertbox 990321.html URL as UI http www.isoc.org inet95 proceedings PAPER 016 html paper.html The User Interface of URLs Category URL es URL sem ntica ... more details
Notability date May 2010 URL Snooper is a Microsoft Windows Windows program to find Uniform Resource Locator URL s of streaming media and data stream data . This allows streamed files download through every download manager . Its scope is the same as that of a stream recorder . It uses pcap Winpcap for packet capturing. See also Comparison of download managers List of download managers External links http www.donationcoder.com Software Mouser urlsnooper URL Snooper http all streaming media.com All streaming media recording software http sourceforge.net projects pyurlsnooper PyURLSnooper is OS independent and open source uses pcap Wrappers for use of libpcap WinPcap in languages other than C and C pcapy for packet capturing Category Network analyzers Category URL Category Web software es URL Snooper ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2008 Merge Vanity domain date April 2011 A vanity URL is a Uniform Resource Locator URL or domain name , created to point to something to which it is related and indicated in the name of the URL, very similar to a Personalized URL . In many cases this is done by a company to point to a specific product or advertising campaign microsite . In theory, vanity URLs are creatively linked to something making them easier to remember than a more random link. In social media Social networking sites like Facebook , MySpace , and Twitter offer vanity URLs to their users where their username is in the URL. For example, code facebook.com wikipedia code would bring you to the Wikipedia fan page on Facebook. Use of top level domains in vanity URLs A top level domain can become part of a vanity URL. Taking advantage of countries that do not ask for proof of residence to register their country code top level domain country specific TLDs can allow a user to incorporate the two or three letters following the dot, using them to help spell out the desired name, word or phrase. For example, someone named Jane Smith might register a site on the .th domain to spell code www.janesmi.th code References Category Domain name system Category URL www stub ... more details
A URL Template is a way to specify a URL that includes parameters that must be substituted before the URL is resolved. The syntax is usually to enclose the parameter in Braces punctuation Braces example . The convention is for a parameter to not be Percent encoded unless it follows a Question Mark ? . Examples nowiki http example.com people firstName lastName SSN nowiki nowiki http example.com query?firstName firstName &lastName lastName nowiki If we were building these urls for Bj rk with firstName Bj rk and lastName Gu mundsd ttir they would be nowiki http example.com people Bj rk Gu mundsd ttir SSN nowiki nowiki http example.com query?firstName Bj c3 b6rk&lastName Gu c3 b0mundsd c3 b3ttir nowiki Code In python, if you have the variable code name code that you want to put into the string code url code , you can simply do this source lang python import urllib2 while name in url if ? in url and url.find ? url.find name url url.replace name , urllib2.quote name , 1 else url url.replace name , name, 1 source Note this will go into an infinite loop if code name name code or other such corner cases. External links http code.google.com p uri templates URI templates project http tools.ietf.org html draft gregorio uritemplate URI Template Internet Draft Spec DEFAULTSORT Url Template Category Internet standards de URL Template ... more details
URL . Refimprove date January 2011 URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator URL may be made substantially shorter in length and still direct to the required page. This is achieved by using an URL Redirection HTTP Redirect on a domain name that is short, which links to the web page that has a long URL. For example, the URL tt nowiki http en.wikipedia.org wiki URL shortening nowiki tt can be shortened to tt nowiki http bit.ly urlwiki nowiki tt or tt nowiki .... In November 2009, the shortened links on one URL shortening service were accessed 2.1 billion times ... Challenges Bit.ly as King of the Short New York Times, 14 December 2009 ref Normally, a URL shortening ... the provider s site address in order to point to the long URL. Another use of URL shortening is to disguise ... reasons, it is open to abuse and for this reason, some URL shortening service providers have found themselves ... needed date April 2011 Purposes There are several reasons to use URL shortening. The free hosting ... unpleasing address. Some web developers on mainstream sites tend to pass descriptive attributes in the URL ... and this often results in a URL that contains a large number of characters, is awkward to reproduce and impossible to remember. Copying a URL that is hundreds of characters long can only really be successfully ... in errors. Thus a short URL is more useful to write in an e mail message or an internet forum post. On Twitter ... of characters that can be used in a message. Using a URL shortener can make it easier to include a URL within a short message. Some shortening services, such as tt TinyURL tinyurl.com tt and tt bit.ly ... generated by a length optimized service. Finally, the URL shortening sites provide detailed information ... by a URL shortener in order to reduce the printed area of the code or allow printing at lower density to improve scanning reliability. Registering a short URL An increasing number of websites are registering ... online, at the web pages of a URL shortening service. Short URLs often circumvent the intended use ... more details
Wikify date October 2010 URL born as Earl Edgar D souza is an Indian Bahrain born rapper. He takes his name from Urban Rustic Lingo, or Hindish . He is best known for his session work on over 500 Bollywood films and over 1000 remix albums over the years. ref Cite news url http www.timeoutmumbai.net music music details.asp?code 103&source 1 title Hindish singer Earl Edgar D Souza spells it out for Amit Gurbaxani. work Timeout Mumbai accessdate 20 April 2010 ref ref Cite web url http www.screenindia.com news iadddifferenttexturestosongs 496036 title I add different textures to songs last Vijayakar first Rajiv date July 31, 2009 work Screen India accessdate 20 April 2010 ref References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Earl Edgar D souza ALTERNATIVE NAMES URL SHORT DESCRIPTION Rapper DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Url Category Living people Category Year of birth missing living people Rapper stub ... more details
A Spoofed URL describes one website that poses as another. It sometimes applies a mechanism that exploits bugs in web browser technology, allowing a malicious computer attack. Such attacks are most effective against computers that lack recent security patches. Others are designed for the purpose of a parody . During such an attack, a computer user innocently visits a web site and sees a familiar Uniform Resource Locator URL in the address bar such as nowiki http www.wikipedia.org nowiki but is, in reality, sending information to an entirely different location that would typically be monitored by an information thief. When sensitive information is requested by a fraudulent website, it is called phishing . The user is typically enticed to the false website from an email or a hyperlink from another website. In another variation, a website may look like the original, but is in fact a parody of it. These are mostly harmless, and are more noticeably different from the original, as they usually do not exploit bugs in web browser technology. This can also take place in a hosts file . It can redirect a site s to another IP, which could be a spoofed website. See also Computer insecurity Hosts file Hosts File IDN homograph attack Spoofing attack Social engineering computer security External links Secunia security describes http secunia.com advisories 10395 Microsoft Internet Explorer URL spoofing vulnerability 2003 Microsoft Knowledge Base Article http support.microsoft.com ?id 833786 833786 Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive spoofed Web sites and malicious hyperlinks. Category Computer network security Category Internet fraud Category URL Internet stub de URL Spoofing nl URL spoofing ... more details
URL normalization or URL canonicalization is the process by which Uniform Resource Locator URLs are modified ... a URL into a normalized or canonical URL so it is possible to determine if two syntactically different URLs may be equivalent. Search engine s employ URL normalization in order to assign importance to web pages and to reduce indexing of duplicate pages. Web crawler s perform URL normalization in order ... and host components of the URL are case insensitive. Most normalizers will convert them to lowercase ... be removed from or added to a URL. Example code nowiki http www.example.com 80 bar.html nowiki code ... removed from a URL according to the algorithm described in RFC 3986 or a similar algorithm ... different URL although it may refer to the same resource Removing directory index. Default ... the fragment. The Fragment identifier fragment component of a URL is usually removed. Example ... pages have more than one variable in the URL. A normalizer can remove all the variables with their data, sort them into alphabetical order by variable name , and reassemble the URL. Example code nowiki ... character encoding. When the URL contains special characters such as a slash, dot, or space, check ... display?category foo 2Fbar 2Bbaz nowiki code Normalization based on URL lists Some normalization rules may be developed for specific websites by examining URL lists obtained from previous crawls or web server logs. For example, if the URL code nowiki http foo.org story?id xyz nowiki code appears in a crawl ... that the two URLs are equivalent and can be normalized to one of the URL forms. Schonfeld et al. 2006 ... be applied to URL lists. They showed that once the correct DUST rules were found and applied with a canonicalization algorithm, they were able to find up to 68 of the redundant URLs in a URL list ... Sang Ho Lee, Sung Jin Kim, and Seok Hoo Hong year 2005 title On URL normalization booktitle Proceedings ... 1076 1085 url http dblab.ssu.ac.kr publication LeKi05a.pdf cite conference author Gautam Pant, Padmini ... more details
url http www.contentwithstyle.co.uk content clean urls for a better search engine ranking title Clean ... 2006 02 28 accessdate 2010 09 09 ref Other reasons for designing a clean URL structure for a website or web service include ensuring that individual Resource Web resources remain under the same URL for years ... first Tim title Cool URIs don t change url http www.w3.org Provider Style URI.html work Style Guide ..., logical, easy to type, human centric, and long lived. ref cite web last Neath first Kyle title URL Design url http warpspire.com posts url design accessdate 6 March 2011 date 2010 ref Examples Examples of clean versus unclean URLs follow table type class wikitable hdrs Unclean URL Clean URL row1 .... ref name rield cite web last Jacek first Jonas title Clean URL Design Guidelines url http rield.com how to url design accessdate 6 March 2011 date 2011 ref But there can also be different levels of cleanness ... to include relevant keywords in the URL and remove irrelevant words from it. So common words like the , and , an , a , etc. are often stripped out to further trim down the URL while descriptive ... to. And, because not all resources have URL friendly names due to the character set restrictions .... This also eliminates ugly and hard to remember percent encoding URL encoded strings e.g. tt Peanut ... at example.php is rewritten in Python programming language Python , the URL will have to change, or rewrite rule s will need to be used to allow the old URL to redirect to the new one. See also Representational state transfer REST Rewrite engine References references Category URL Category Search engine optimization de Clean URL ko URL ... more details
date August 2009 Howto date January 2011 URL redirection , also called URL forwarding and the very ... reasons to use URL redirection Similar domain names A user might mis type a URL for example ... pages to a new domain two web sites might merge. With URL redirects, incoming links to an outdated URL ... URL, visitors will still end up at the correct page. Also, in the next search engine pass, the search engine should detect and use the newer URL. Logging outgoing links The access logs of most web servers ... can be captured in several ways. One way involves URL redirection. Instead of sending the visitor straight to the other site, links on the site can direct to a URL on the original website s domain .... ref cite journal title Google revives redirect snoopery journal blog.anta.net date 2009 01 29 url ... the warning causes an additional delay. Short aliases for long URLs Main URL shortening Web applications ... structures, transaction paths and session information. This practice results in a URL that is aesthetically ... of microblogging sites. URL shortening services provide a solution to this problem by redirecting a user to a longer URL from a shorter one.. Meaningful, persistent aliases for long or changing URLs See also Permalink PURL Link rot Sometimes the URL of a page changes even though the content stays the same. Therefore URL redirection can help users who have bookmarks. This is routinely done on Wikipedia ... suspicious and frightening redirection URL for even benign webpages. For example, an input of tt en.wikipedia.org tt generates tt 5z8.info hookers e4u5 inject worm tt . Manipulating visitors URL ... URL in the address bar, the threat is lessened. However, redirects can also take you to sites that will otherwise .... This field is populated with the URL of the current web page, and will end up in the server log ... for the tt referer tt URL to leave the organization. A redirection page that performs Referer ... the referer URL, such as the session ID , and can reduce the chance of phishing by indicating to the end ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Infobox television show name URL With Phred image caption format Animated series , Educational runtime One hour. creator starring Doug Preis country United States USA network Noggin TV channel Noggin first aired September 21, 2000 last aired April 1, 2002 num episodes 20 URL With Phred is the Spin off media spin off series of The Phred on Your Head Show that aired on Noggin TV channel Noggin now Nick Jr . from February 2, 1999 until April 1, 2002. One of the notable differences in detail is that The Phred on Your Head Show Head s dot in Noggin.com was cut out pictures and the outside of the dot was colorful. In URL , Phred s dot looks hand drawn and the outside of the dot is mostly blue. Vignettes Introduction to Doug Phred would lead Doug with a certain introduction i.e. Phred reading his cue cards and stopping between certain points because a fly was on the card. Doug A complete 30 minute episode of Doug would play. During Commercial Breaks Noggin.com s high scores for certain games would air. As well as Dress Phred , another game from Noggin.com in which the user picks the clothing of their choice and puts it on the image of Phred. Others included Skengle and Skengle Two creatures, a blue one with a big head, one eye, and a small body, and a small green one with a pink bow on her head, both named Skengle They would occainsionally put icus next to some words in their sentences. They would answer polls the user put up at Noggin.com. Noggimation An online animated patch would play. It was created by the user who went to Noggin.com. Others There were other shorts between shows. One example is when the female director had to get Phred moving, but realized that it was a cardboard cut out of Phred. Introduction to Cro Phred would host another ... voice says It is now safe to sign off the URL with Phred Show. as a window appears on the screen. See also Phred Big Voice The Phred on Your Head Show DEFAULTSORT Url With Phred Category American children ... more details
Search Retrieve via URL SRU is a standard search protocol for Internet search queries, utilizing Contextual Query Language CQL , a standard query syntax for representing queries. See also Search Retrieve Web Service External links http www.loc.gov standards sru Search Retrieve via URL at Library of Congress web stub Internet search Category Data search engines Category Searching Category URL de Search Retrieve via URL uk URL ca Search Retrieve via URL ... more details
to a URL, his Subscription Manager contacts the URL s Content Provider and establishes the subscription. A URLSA user can also subscribe another user to a URL, assuming the subscribing user has been given permission. When a user subscribes someone else to a URL, their Subscription Manager contacts that user ... a user is subscribed to a URL, the Content Provider can notify him of updates of the content at the URL ... to the URL. At any time, the user may unsubscribe from the URL, at which time the updates ... Web syndication formats Category URL ... more details
Refimprove date December 2009 Orphan date February 2009 In a semantic URL attack , a Client computing client manually adjusts the parameter s of its request by maintaining the Uniform Resource Locator URL s syntax but altering its semantics semantic meaning. This attack is primarily used against Common Gateway Interface CGI driven websites. A similar attack involving web browser HTTP cookie cookies is commonly referred to as cookie poisoning . Example Consider a web based e mail application where users can reset their password by answering the security question correctly, and allows the users to send the password to the e mail address of their choosing. After they answer the security question correctly, the web page will arrive to the following web form where the users can enter their alternative e mail address source lang html4strict form action resetpassword.php method GET input type hidden name username value user001 p Please enter your alternative e mail address p input type text name altemail br input type submit value Submit form source The receiving page, resetpassword.php, has ... URL code nowiki http semanticurlattackexample.com resetpassword.php?username user001&altemail alternative 40emailexample.com nowiki code This URL appears in the location bar of the browser, so the user can identify the username and the e mail address through the URL parameters. The user may decide to steal other people s user002 e mail address by visiting the following URL as an experiment ... URL attack. The new password of the user002 e mail address will be generated and sent to nowiki ... URL attack can be avoided easily by using Session computer science Session . ref http dev.mysql.com ... URL manipulation and use the POST HTTP POST method instead of the GET method. References Reflist See also Query string DEFAULTSORT Semantic Url Attack Category Computer network security Category URL Comp sci stub ... more details
Ramon Llull University logo Non free logo History of File Url logo.gif 2007 04 23T14 38 16Z User Cydebot Cydebot User talk Cydebot Talk Special Contributions Cydebot contribs 45 bytes nowiki Robot Renaming non free template logo per Wikipedia Non free content templates . nowiki 2006 03 11T12 05 39Z User Tagishsimon Tagishsimon User talk Tagishsimon Talk Special Contributions Tagishsimon contribs nowiki logo nowiki 2005 02 16T22 59 35Z User Lancer Lancer User talk Lancer Talk Special Contributions Lancer contribs nowiki Ramon Llull University logo nowiki 2005 02 16T22 59 35Z User Lancer Lancer User talk Lancer Talk Special Contributions Lancer contribs 198x198 3295 bytes ... more details
Summary The URL input bar in Safari web browser Safari 3 under Mac OS X v10.4 Mac OS X Tiger . Licensing Non free software screenshot Fair use rationale Not intended to cause any financial damage to Apple Screenshot demonstrates a unique feature layout that could not be demonstrated using an existing screenshot Screenshot is made for educational use Wikipedia is a non profit organization It shows the feature of the product that is described in the article. The above rationale applies to the image s use on Address bar . NowCommons 1 Image Safari 3 URL bar.png 2 no date 2011 11 26 ... more details
2chan may refer to 2channel , a Japanese textboard with the URL 2ch.net Futaba Channel , a Japanese imageboard with the URL 2chan.net Letter NumberCombDisambig ... more details
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