When I copy the following URL from FireFox https://example.com/away.php?to=http://example.com/page/42 and then paste, I get a link like: https://example.com/away.php?to=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fpage%2F42 How do I get the non-encoded link instead? Maybe there is a hidden option in Firefox, or a plugin. I tried searching the web, but didn't found anything. Update re. duplicate question thing: I am asking not (only) about copying text from address bar, but about copying the text from anywhere in a web page. But let's keep the link between these questions, they seem relevant.
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Let's say I open a webpage with some Unicode characters, say, Cyrillic, in the address like this:        When I try to copy it from the address bar somewhere else, it becomes unreadable rubbish:        I guess this is for compatibility. However for readability I want to copy it straight away with proper Unicode characters.  What and how should I tweak to make that possible?  Edit: The answers are good, but they are hacky. Are there any settings in about:config?
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I was searching through StackOverflow, and found a question with one answer. I found the text of the answer very familiar, and realized it was a direct copy and paste from my blog, with no attribution as to the source.   Naturally I'm happy that people think my writing is helpful, I'd like credit for my copy. I'm not sure what the protocol is. Should I directly ask the user (first answer they've submitted) to update the answer to include a link? Should I report it somewhere?
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Links in [link text][number] format don't work properly if they follow a tag using the new [tag:tagName] format. Here's the result of [tag:python] [gold badge page][1]:      [gold badge page]   Putting the tag inside the link is worse. Here's the result of [[meta-tag:bug] some text][2], where [2] is google.com:        The part of the link outside the tag just disappears silently.  EDIT: To be more precise, the entire link to [2] disappears. The markup that is produced contains (invalid) nested anchor tags, as shown here from Firefox's "View Source":  &lt;a href="http://google.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;a href="/questions/tagged/bug" class="post-tag required-tag" title="show questions tagged 'bug'" rel="tag"&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt; some text&lt;/a&gt;   So the tag is still a link, but it is a link to the tag page, which is the behavior it would have if the link to [2] didn't exist at all. The user's desired behavior in this case is... ambiguous, to be charitable.  EDIT 2: I briefly included markup from Firebug here, but it turned out to be irrelevant. It has now been removed to improve readability. See  if you're interested.
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When I get a captcha on Stack Overflow, I don't see the image or the input box with Firefox. I originally had the "HTTPS Anywhere" extension installed but still have the same issue when it's disabled (This caused issues previously when Google's SSL certs were expired for an old domain IIRC).  The requests to Google seem to be never-ending; browsing to the URLs that are still loading results in some pages of JavaScript, but no errors as you'd hope.  The screenshot was taken after the page had been open for more than 3 minutes, and I'm not sure why the GETs are still running. The request popup visible in Firebug is for "GET challenge?k=...."  When browsing to the same captcha page in IE, there are no issues.  I'm aware this could be an issue with my Firefox configuration, as opposed to the site, but would appreciate it if someone could verify if it's just me, and suggest a fix.  EDIT   While visiting the Recaptcha site, I can see a Captcha with no problems If I right-click the problem URLs in FF and Open in new tab, the pages load fine. From the fact that FB omits IP Addresses for the problem ones, I assume that it's not even opening a connection (nor perhaps performing a DNS lookup) Other sites that use Recaptcha seem to work fine (I picked 3 at random from Google)
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I might just be lazy, but do you ever find it tiresome to select all the source code from a large post on Stack&nbsp;Overflow to copy it?  I would like a feature, possibly a Firefox extension, but preferably a JavaScript script, for automatically copying source examples to the clipboard. It's no big deal for a small snippet, but a 1000+ line posting is cumbersome to copy.  Do you guys have a better way of copying large source posts? I'm using Firefox 3.5.5 on Windows&nbsp;7.
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is it possible to use the \url command from the hyperref package with "shorthand" URLs, e.g.  \url{ipython.org}   instead of   \url{http://ipython.org} ?   It seems that the former would only link to local files on my computer, instead of retrieving the web address. (I suppose I could be using \href, but \url is shorter and I'd like to keep its formatting features.)  Edit in response to karlkoeller's answer:   Sorry for not being sufficiently precise. I don't mind typing the 'http' part so much, but I'd rather not see it printed.   egreg's answer does what I want to do - many thanks!
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I am trying to make my url from this:  example.com/view.php?id=15   To this:  example.com/watch/15   My code in .htaccess is as follows:  Options -Indexes Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^watch/([^/]+) view.php?id=$1 [NC]   Now if I go to example.com/watch/15 it loads the content but without any JS, CSS because in this case it looks for CSS and JS under the /watch folder which doesn't exist.  How do I make this option work properly? I don't want to create watch folder and copy-paste CSS and JS so it will embed properly.
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What does double slashes often found in URL's mean exactly?  For example:   http://www.example.com/A/B//C/   Please note that I'm not referring to the beginning right after http:.
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What is the maximum length of a URL in different browsers? Does it differ among browsers? Is a maximum URL length part of the HTTP specification?
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I want to decode URL encoding, is there any built-in tool for doing this or could anyone provide me with a sed code that will do this?   I did search a bit through  and on the internet but I couldn't find any command line tool for decoding url encoding.  What I want to do is simply in place edit a txt file so that:   %21 becomes ! %23 becomes # %24 becomes $ %26 becomes &amp; %27 becomes ' %28 becomes ( %29 becomes )   And so on.
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I have seen links in servers that can send you to a page in a browser, is there any way to replicate this with command blocks?  I don't mean command links, I mean web pages.
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I saw a really hilarious (and correct) answer to a question and wanted to link directly to it because of the way answers "float" up and down based on votes. And for me to find the URL I had to go to the posters profile, page through all of their responses (thank God it wasn't Jon Skeet), and find the link. Is there an easier way? If not could we have a link to the question posted in the question header so we can copy it's destination?(The way that I have seen that liked best was just the number displayed linking to the correct URL so you could just click the URL and copy it.)
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In  to a question, I posted a link with a special character in.  Originally it was this:  &gt; Q: Why did the chicken cross the [Möbius strip][1]?   &gt; A: To get to the same side.  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Möbius_strip   But the link didn't show. I have since changed it to /Mobius_strip since that URL works fine for Wikipedia, but just thought you might like to know.  Just testing to see if the link works by posting it raw:
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My home page could be potentially linked as:  http://example.com http://example.com/ http://example.com/?ref=1 http://example.com/index.html http://example.com/index.html?ref=2  (the same page is served for all those URLs)   I am thinking about defining a canonical URL to make sure Google doesn't consider those urls to be different pages:  &lt;link rel="canonical" href="/" /&gt; (relative) &lt;link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/" /&gt; (trailing slash) &lt;link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com" /&gt; (no trailing slash)   Which one should be used? I would just slap / but messing with canonical seems like a scary business so I wanted double check first.  Is it a good idea at all for defining a canonical URL for a home page?
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I wrote a PHP code like this  $site="http://www.google.com"; $content = file_get_content($site); echo $content;   But when I remove "http://" from $site I get the following warning:     Warning:   file_get_contents(www.google.com)   [function.file-get-contents]: failed   to open stream:   I tried try and catch but it didn't work.
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I'm trying to direct a browser to a different page. If I wanted a GET request, I might say  document.location.href = 'http://example.com/q=a';   But the resource I'm trying to access won't respond properly unless I use a POST request. If this were not dynamically generated, I might use the HTML  &lt;form action="http://example.com/" method="POST"&gt;   &lt;input type="hidden" name="q" value="a"&gt; &lt;/form&gt;   Then I would just submit the form from the DOM.  But really I would like JavaScript code that allows me to say  post_to_url('http://example.com/', {'q':'a'});   What's the best cross browser implementation?  Edit   I'm sorry I was not clear. I need a solution that changes the location of the browser, just like submitting a form. If this is possible with , it is not obvious. And this should not be asynchronous, nor use XML, so Ajax is not the answer.
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When posting an HTTPS url like https://stackoverflow.com/..., it does not onebox in chat. For example: