URL shortening at it's best

BETA USER: Is this feature working? When I add a link I get an error that says "URL cannot be more than 255 characters."

ME (biting my tongue): Hi ****, Yes it works. The link you're trying to add is too long. Please try a shorter URL.

BETA USER: Oh, it should tell you that!

😳🤪🤬

I just found that the logo of devRant exists in every URL out there.

:/
https://

Building a website for a client. Asked what URL they would like for the domain name...

Their reply:

Found two awesome domain names (shown as available on namecheap) for the url shortener!

Paid when an error appeared. Contacted the customer service through the live chat.

A bug in their system showed them as available while they're taken.

😭

My CTO everyone:

"You don't have to assert proper permissions in the backend for this user role, they won't guess the URL anyway. just hide the links"

Yikes.. fml.

Yeah, just saw, that whatsapp is using emoticons in their web url 😃

Client: Extend string size for that URL field. I have to input a really large URL in there.

Me: Please show me the URL first.

Client: Here it is //randomurl.com/random-route/15363783?i=jfjfjfjjfjfjhf&shit=jfjfjkfkfkgjfjjhh74747jdjh&you=kfjfjbhgg779hdhhd&not=jfjhdh63737#fuckingKiddingMe

Me: You can leave the whole part after the question mark. Insert it like //randomurl.com/random-route/15363783

Client: Ok, great. Thanks.

#####

Me later checking the data inserted:

//randomurl.com/random-route

I hate humans.

*opens new tab*

*types 'google' into URL bar*

...is navigated to google home page...

*proceeds to enter desired query into the same URL bar*

Oh yes...

Always wanted to build a URL shortener. Guess what I'm building right now :D (next to working on a blog article)

Somehow this is making me very happy 😊

So my friend just got this. Notice the URL it's kinda sad. It seems like they've just given up 😂

Request URL: /api/v1/user/53b49b5a30
Request Method: GET

Expected Response:
Status Code: 404 Not Found (as the user is actually not present in the DB)

Actual Response:
Status Code: 200 Ok
Response Content:
{
"status": "ERROR",
"errorCode": "404",
"errorMsg": "User Not Found. Please provide a valid user ID",
"type": "Error",
"userMsg": "User Not Found. Please provide a valid user ID"
}

#extremefacepalm

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. I SPEND HOURS INVESTIGATING INCOMING & OUTGOING DATA. I CHECKED ALL THE CODE, I EVEN TEAMVIEWED A CUSTOMER WHICH WAS HAVING SOME ISSUES WITH MY APP.

TURNS OUT I FORGOT A FUCKING '/' IN MY FUCKING CODE. WHICH MEANS THE HOLE GODDAMN API URL MAKES NO SENSE.

WHY THE FUCK DO I ALWAYS OVERCOMPLICATE SHIT LIKE THIS.

FUCK

Today a client asked us if we could remove http:// of his website url...

Was literally about to release a test version of the url shortener when I did some more testing and found some security vulnerabilities, let's fix those first tomorrow 😅

Try this url 😂😂😂😂😂
Stackoverflow.com/admin.php

* Save a Microsoft documentation url.
* open it after a while.
* url not found !

Shitty site

Been working since yesterday on a bug.

Turns out it was just a typo in an url.

I'm cursed.

Url shortener seems to be working well enough as for the features without interface yet, still doing testing but it's looking good (few minor non-critical bugs but that's it as far as I can see)

Now the frontend/interface.

😅😰😬

watched a client use IE, all the while they didn't use tabs or even a new window, every time we had to go back to a previous site they had to Google the URL then click the search link

Fucking URLs, people.
They're not hard.

If you're going to give me a bug report, TELL ME THE GODDAMN URL.

If, after yelling at you several times for not providing the url, you instead just fucking GUESS at the url, YOU'RE A GODDAMN BLITHERING IDIOT AND YOU'RE WASTING MY GODDAMN TIME.

ALT+D, CTRL+C or CMD+L, CMD+C

SO HARD. ASDFASDJGHLKASDHFLJKSGDFSKDF

MAJOR RANT:

Bug in question: Shortened URLs (that we generate dynamically because fuck you) would have a pipe character added in them, obviously breaking the URL.

I SPENT 3.5 DAYS DEBUGGING A MASSIVE, FRANKENSTEIN-LIKE CODE BASE TO FIND THIS:

FUCK YOU WORDPRESS

Omfg never been so fucking pissed in my life.

I just wasted 3 hours because this fucking bullshit rewrites the fucking URL based on the URL on a config fucking file?!!?

It fucking ignores: apache virtual host configs and nginx reverse proxy

omfg...

I didn't actually realize anyone could be this dumb. Sure, I'd heard stories, but I wasn't sure that I'd ever come across this level of stupidity in the wild. I was moving email across hosting accounts for someone, and I asked them to please navigate to a certain domain. Then they asked what navigate meant, so I told them to please type it into the URL bar. They said "OK." 5 seconds later, they said, "Which one do I click on?" They googled the url. So I asked them to please type it into the URL BAR. Then they asked what that was.

...like what? I just told you this yesterday. How fast does information fall out of your head? Do you forget where your toilet is when you wake up every morning? How do these people even function in society?

-_-

When your raspberry pi is bombarded with /phpmyadmin URL attempts in all its forms and possible paths and versions 😅

Like seriously? Who in there right mind uses phpmyadmin AND has it accessible to the public.

- there's no databases on this Rpi but you keep looking.

Senior Engineer -
Hey. I have a code that hits API to get details and multithreading is implemented. Can you just change the URL formed to hit Api?

Me
Yeah sure why not.

Me
After some time I discover that the initial code itself wasn't working 😐
I realise i need to fix code, fix multithreading and then make the URL changes.

Just finished......Realised had to rant....

Firefox: click on the address bar and now you can select something or start typing or move the cursor left/right, works great.

Chromium (because fuck chrome):click in the address bar and THE ENTIRE URL GETS/BECOMES SELECTED. Wanna type something? Sure, go ahead, but FIRST click somewhere else or move the cursor because otherwise the entire url is fucking gone.

Maybe there's a way to disable this behavior but boy does it annoy the living fuck out of me!

The URL for Apple's password reset page is iForgot.apple.com.

Heh heh heh.

That time I had to explain the manager (who decided and committed the deadlines) what a URL was and why we need to use a server for staging the web site.

Company website with images path relative to my localhost/
....
so everything work just on my machine .
the client and pm send me emails to fix the sites but I open the url everything works correctly.
after 5 days the pm attach an image .. at that moment I was like 😖😖😖😖😖😖

Going nuts over a cUrl error in PHP "Protocol HTTPS not supported or disabled in libcurl", recompiling, reinstalling curl, no result...

Just to find out 3h later that the curl request URL had a " " (space) right before "HTTPS://...".

FML .

How I was wondering for like 10 minutes why my changes weren't visible, to then look at the URL and realizing I was looking at online version instead of my development version...

*Copies url from bitbucket*
*Switch to Slack on macOS*
*Presses command + v*
Slack: whaaaaaaaaaat :O I'm gonna freeze for few moments to understand what the fuck you just asked me to do

This is what happens when you decide to send error messages as url value

I'm speechless :\

Only been to a few of those.

But one of those few went like this :

Client : We want an english URL you know like the domain MUST be ending with .uk you see?

Us : But you're based in France and the website is in french???

Them : and what's the problem???

Saw that on the company website.. to lazy to use URL-Rewriting, just did that *OMG*

When somebody tells you a URL and starts by saying "H" "T" "T" "P" ":" "/" "/"

I just tried to tab auto complete a URL in firefox address bar. Guess it's time to sleep now.

this.isRant === True
Salute to everyone who can handle clients (the dumb ones).
So the client I'm freelancing for gives me this website and asks me to scrape entries out of it. It had about 45 items. I did that sent the file. Next day he says my file had the wrong data. He wanted data which satisfies X but the URL given was for Y. The least he could have done was to let me know in the first place instead of giving random URL to scrape and then blame me.

The face of confusion my boss made when I suggested the development of a simple "api" (one end point) to solve a particular issue we faced after improving our infrastructure made me realize I need to abandon this ship...

He really can't wrap his head around calling a URL and doing something on a server although that's what we do every fucking day...

Me: ssl conn cannot be esrablished. Cert is not signed

Sr. Dev/architect: what url are you calling?

Me: dns_name:port

sd/a: yeah, I know that. But what is the url?

Me: *how the f... Did you get 'sr' and 'arch' titles, man???*
Me: why does it matter?

Sd/a: certificates depend on a url. Our LB selects a cert according to a request url

me: *buddy, I like you but I no longer look at you with respect like I used to before today...*

My friend and I have been debugging this server issue where the server can't find the input file.

30 minutes passed, we checked, restarted everything, still no avail.

When I saw his safari browser, THE FULL URL WASNT SHOWING. The server was working, we just didn't see a redirect behavior because of apple fucking trying to fucking prettify everything.

GOD DAMMIT.

/rant

Spent the last 15 minutes trying to extract the relative URL from location.href, until I found out that location.pathname does exactly that 😐

Oauth2 examples.

Seriously all examples I found use library that use library that use library to just build url encoded parameters like this

client_secret=foo&code=bar

Got me 5 hours to dig going trough couple of github repos with implementation to see that shit at the end.

Seriously people !!!
Start thinking before you write single line.
I don’t want to download 10 dependencies and 100MB+ just to send 2 requests with url encoded parameters.

It’s in every - literally every language.

I know you’re stupid but please just try to understand how things work instead of copy paste another stackoverflow and medium snippet.

I came across a line of code that calls an sms provider that sends account credentials in the url using HTTP T_T

Imagine being so full of yourself that you use your own URL schema.

User:I can't access site.
Screenshot: not even close to being correct URL....

Download playlist from YouTube in Linux by installing "YouTube-dl"

It's really amazing Downloader for Linux even you can download single video by typing "YouTube-dl URL" . 😊 😊

Received a new client.
"Hi can you help me redesign my website?"

Me: "Sure what's your sites URL?"
(Checking out site before I take clients)

C: "127.0.0.1"

"Task failed. For more info, go to TODO: URL"

fantastic! Didn't know TODO: was a protocol now.

The day I had to Translate this javascript:

fetch(url).then(r => r.json()).then(r => r.data)

To visual basic

Redesigns are good!

(Before Pic in comments)

Today I played hide and seek at work, this time it was not find the missing semicolon but instead find the unknown. After 30 minutes it turned out the request URL had a capital 'i' instead of a small 'L'
==> l = I almost the same but guess my eyes are not functioning as they should

It was a fun game

#4

Only 7 of the ~200 Routes are named. The former dev just created URLs within the views with the url() method.

#4.1

There are just GET & POST request. Even though stuff is getting edited or deleted.

😓🔨

How do I use a icon in the URL?

This was the Google search result image.

After a week of trying to figure out why my Android Studio project wasn't connecting to my db I finally realized that I was using the wrong URL

So, I just found out a bunch of chrome processes running on the staging server. Very weird, as the server doesn't even have a DE installed, why would someone need chrome running.

Then found out that somebody was spawning chrome headless mode, going to the API url, and saving the page as pdf (calling it generating report)

-_- Very very innovative, So instead of generating the report on the server side and be done with just a single API call, one has to launch a web browser, then GO TO THE DAMN API URL, SAVE PAGE AS PDF.

GUYS I BUILT A FUCKING URL BAR AND IT EXISTS, IT'S ALIGNED, AND IT FUCKING WORKS

It doesn't have a very good check for what is a valid url tho, it is currently working checking for subreddits like /r/<whatever> and it checks if the link begins with http:// or https://. At some point in the near future I want to clean it up a bit, maybe write some regex (oh god kill me now) that'll actually check for a valid url

I tried hard, but they're safe. (Un)fortunately (for me).... 😂

I hacked a browser game a few years ago for fun and the exploit I found and used was basically this:

<$php

$f = $_GET['f'];
$p = $_GET['p'];

$f($p);

So it was possible to pass a function and it's parameter in the URL to the server. The author used this to include() sub pages. I to highlight_file()s.

Is it only me who gets screwed up by such silly little things?
Last night I was working on an Android app. I connect it to a URL. It always threw exception. I scratched my head for one whole hour to find out that Cellular Data was not turned ON on the emulator. 😛

My predecessor used auth as a bool. The only way he kept basic users from accessing admin functions was by including the word "admin" or "user" in the URL so any user could be the administrator by just changing the URL parameters after logging in

For example, mysite.com/admin/editorderdetails vs. mysite.com/user/editorderdetails

Alright then...

At least it parsed null as a string. Better than crashing, but the correct url would have been slightly better.

Yeah much shorter... *evil laugh*

Got a request from a client to remove the dot on the i because umlauts are bad for SEO in URL paths

curl some.url

Can't connect to server.

Try some.url on the browser

It works.

curl some.url

Can't connect to server.

Google the problem

"Maybe you got the URL wrong"

(Sigh. Perhaps it's a firewall thing.)

Switch to tethering

Can't connect to server.

(This is going to be a long day.)

Passing credentials in the URL...

So today a client requested that the domain name in the address bar should be all capital letters because of corporate design. Don't get me wrong, this is a valid request for someone who has no experience in the IT world. But he refused to believe me that it wasn't possible. He even claimed that he has seen it at least hundred times and called me incapable. I don't get clients.

Did you know:

If you put illuminati backwards in a URL bar, followed by .com, it will take you to NSA.gov?

Tip: Never add an execution (PHP for example) script as a bookmark in your browser..

Your browser will occasionally poll the saved URL to update the favicon or sync to the server or something like that, which triggers the script without you knowing...

Oh come on... Does even ecosia need to craft their truth. First party trackers aren't that better than third-party...
At least there is only one url to block. Easy.

So, I recently switched to DuckDuckGo and my fucking college REDIRECTS THE FUCKING URL TO FUCKING GOOGLE.

FUCK YOU!!!!!

Idea: Corruption as a service.

RESTful API where you send a URL to a file, an intensity and a method, and if the file's under some size, we return a URL to the now-corrupted file on the server, which is removed after like 5 minutes of inactivity or something.

Depending on method and intensity, corruption amount varies from one byte to every byte being either replaced or added to/subtracted from by a certain amount.

I just found out I had used, for over 4 months, the wrong function to encode/decode url strings, which caused a lot of issues with my app...
I refused to believe that the problem is there, so I was looking elsewhere.

The longest search of a bug in my life finally over. Fixed! :D

Conversation between a developer and admin team to change configuration in higher environment.
Dev: Please change these config parameters.
Admin: What is environment url
Dev: 😑. Gives the url
Admin: How to change?
Dev: 😑. Gives all the details
Admin: I am unable to perform as server is slow.
Dev: Whom will you report the slowness of server as you are the admin?😵
Admin shocked developer rocked

Sitting 10 min+ to understand why the pagination comes up empty when results per page is increased...

Then in the url i relises that "...?page=2" ☺️

Happy Monday everyone!

wanted to buy a domain, I loaded the url to check if it was available. it redirected me to another domain, where the only content was a bible quote.

I've just added the possibility to connect to an external game server to my app and immediately regret it. People started sending me emails saying that it doesn't work. What they entered in the URL bar? "hi", "cunt" and a porn website...

I'm about to move to a new city and one of the websites I'm using adds its name, url and ©️2018 to anything you copy. It is driving me absolutely insane. Trying to find an adress on google? Well you didn't search for [streetname], you searched for [streetname, website name, url ©️2018]. Thank you for copyrighting that public street you fuck. Trying to e-mail an agent? Sorry I can't send an email to [e-mail adress, website name, url].
Whoever thought of this needs to be taken out back and shot.

I type the YouTube URL at the address bar already with the q parameter with what I want to search to save one HTTP request.

Submit a request via URL /submit&approved=0: Committee rejects request.

Submit same request via URL /submit&approved=1: Committee asks who approved the request.

Instagram returns 404 when profile is not found and no user is logged in but returns 200 for the same url when any user is logged in. WTF!
Took me so long to debug this shit

A website I made years ago, just needed to change the url to be logged in as admin and no encryption

Which IP/URL do you guys ping when checking if internet is working?
I always ping: google.com

You know you're talking to a sales guy:

"What's the URL for your API?"
"Um, I don't think we have one."

"programming isn't hard, all you have to know is stackoverflow's URL"
-dudeking, 2019

Modify the front-end code and noting change.

Empty the cache... ✔️ not work
Check xampp open... ✔️ not work
Check my sass compile... ✔️ not work
Compile vuejs webpack... ✔️ not work
Check my laravel route... ✔️ not work
Check with Xdebug... ✔️ not work

Go get coffee... ✔️Not work

See the url on stagging.<website>.ca in my browser ❌

😲🙄😅 Holy fucking retard i am...

"you realize that any user can gain admin access by signing in with their own creds and switching out the word "user" or "client" in the url for "admin"

"Yeah, I don't care. <sr dev> is under a lot of pressure"

I get emailed a bug with a bad photo (6.4 mb) of the guys pc where half the url is cut out.
So I ask the dude for the url, I shit you not he took 2 more bad photos (15mb of attachments) then hooked his phone up to his pc and mailed them to me.
This guy is the fricken "Operations Executive".

Those fucking cunts that put href="javascript:..." links, where a simple URL would suffice, deserve a horrible death

A client asked me to include a GA tracking code into her website,

I said yea I'll add it for you, just send me the code snippet please :)

she sent me the URL to google analytics login page....

I told her that I need the code snippet not the URL.

She replied: yah that's what I sent.

Me:...

How?
Is it a test?

Seriously? Using umlauts in an URL?

This happened today... Not my finest hour...

$.ajax({
url: "someurl",
type: "GET",
success: function(data) {
//do something
},
error: function() {
console.log(error);
}
});

...

Browser Exception:
Error: "error" is not defined

FML

I just spent 3 fucking hours because I didn't realize there was another / needed in a url variable and I just couldn't figure out where the error was coming from

So hyped cause my side project had +20% traffic last week !!!!

Turns out it was all coming from 'Secret.ɢoogle.com You are invited! Enter only with this ticket URL. Copy it. Vote for Trump!'

Google Analytics how easily are you fooled ?

GOOGLE WANTS TO KILL THE URL..

Umm... that's ok. But I like URL to know where exactly I'm. They should not be very long and should be in the language I can understand.

So hiding rest part of the URL will not impress me much.

Opening up IE11 to test HTML in local development.
Entering local IP to URL bar and IE decides to look for that IP address in Bing... 🤬🔫
No that's not how you do it IE.

Clients that call to ask you for the URL to the test environment seem to never have heard of these things called “email” and “text”.

Guess who just added their dev DB URL to source control and pushed?

Woopsie.

I feel some type of way when i see someone type in the correct url for a website in the search bar and then click the link in the results. WHY!? 😒

Logging into my school website when... WHY DO YOU USE 🤬 FRNCH FOR BOOLEAN IN THE URL M🤬F

Ok, I know this is a francophone college, but come on!

1 Week ago I took down the development version of an internal demo, leaving only the prod one (temporary space issue). Colleagues were told n+15 times via email, face to face, comments on tickets etc. The prod one has also been live for weeks, and again, they were told when it went up.

This just happened:

Colleague 1: practiseSafeHex can you help me, the demo doesn't seem to be working.

Me: *logs in*, *click around* ... seems fine dude. Are you using the correct URL: <prod-url>.

Colleague 1: let me try again and see.
Colleague 2: practiseSafeHex i'm with Colleague 1, were trying to use the demo, and its not working. Can you have a look, we need it.

Me: I just told him, its fine, I think you have the wrong URL <prod-url>. Can you try again.

Colleague 2: No I have the right one, can you check it.

Me: *does nothing*, yep i've had a look at it, can you try again: <prod-url>.

Colleague 2: Ah its back now, cheers.

They are with a customer now, so I won't say anything, when they get back, one of them is being castrated.

Task: Use random string in url to prevent cache.
Me: `<script src="lightbox.js?random"></script>`

SELECT * FROM PEOPLE WHERE GIRLFRIEND = 'Y';

> 0 rows returned

*Sigh*

SELECT VIDEO FROM WEBSITES WHERE URL LIKE '%hub%';

Colleagues of mine, even though they show signs of versioning their api by having "v1" in the URL, keep committing breaking changes to that version. 😂

Yahoo finance shut down all their historic data uRL and im out of options. No API or packeges works. I have a report to pass up on tuesday for my ViVa and this is shit. Fuck. My months of work just wasted.

Don't forget to decodeURI()
Don't forget to decodeURI()
Don't forget to decodeURI()

We are switching to an infinite scroll mode for our app. I told the backend dev in my project (we're just 2 people) I need an API to get more than one post at once.
He told me to use a loop to call the old URL 15 times.
...Not sure if stupid or just too lazy

When coworkers built the shop to allow adding items to cart via url query parameters-_-

/shop/?itemNum=1234&Qty=4

..what?

Surely you can add the tracking number to the URL in the text message, rather than having to go back to the message to copy and paste the tracking number into your website. Royal Mail.

Coworker:Awe..
Fuck me...
Fuck fuck.... I fucked up...This fucking url..

..... Fuck. ... Pages

Me. What's going on buddy
Co worker: pages are down
Me: that sucks bro watchu do

Co worker: nothing too bad

Me: 😕 .. ok..

..... I'm still hearing the "fuuhhhcks" , and groans.

Guess who's delivering the news ... Does dev rants give stress beers.

!rant

The Philips Hue API is some tight-ass shit! I'm not particularly interested in the light bulbs-- maybe I'll give them a try --but the API for the motion sensor is brilliant. Simple, easy JSON responses to simple GET requests against a device-specific URL. I was able to throw together a working sensorcheck script in only a couple minutes.

Dear Chrome, how about when I paste something starting with https%3A%2F%2F into the address bar you get up off your lazy ass and url-decode that shit for me? Ain't nobody got time for this.

I'm a fucking IMBECIL
Was working on some phalcon stuff and I just couldn't figure out why the fucking router wasn't working. Been looking for at least an hour and then it turns out I rewrote the URL to index.php?uri=.. instead of index.php?_url=...

ARGRGGHHGHHG

!rant
@dfox How do you feel about an update to the profile page? I want to link to my personal website, perhaps some regex black magic to override the github link if it matches a URL?

Or just a new input?

When you have notepad++ with 30+ files open, Excel spreadsheets on the taskbar, One Note annotations all over the screen, some email drafts pending in Outlook, but you can't remember where you Ctrl+v'd the fucking snippet.. alt + tab for ages to find it pasted in the browser's url bar lol

Discussion Question for Web Devs and Server Admins.

Should we use unicode (Non-English/Latin) text in URL?

Eg: unicode blog title converted to use as permalink

Why can't my team including my boss learn to stop making assumptions... And mixing seperate issues into one...

If there's a fucking production issue, first step is to reproduce it... AKA ask what the user did and what he expects....

Not...
User: hey we call this url and get an error
Dev: ok rollback

Simple but useful..
Wrote a greasemonkey script to convert url text to hyperlinks..
Reduced lots of time in finding the log url from the error response..
Helping me in debugging faster..

When you're web scraping and the site suddenly redirect their url to their second site so your codes becomes useless.

You know you are way too deep in your project when you start typing "i-n-s" for Instagram and then end up typing insmod in the URL bar instead!

Goddammit Yocto! Why have you rewired my brain?

Hidden services are extremely cool.

Not having to pay for the "domain" is also really nice.

Now to generate a nice vanity URL...

Busy playing with HTML5's history api and content replacing. Got the timing on css animations perfectly so the transitions between pages are smooth as butter. Dont even notice the pages changing aside from the url. Shits pretty cool

untangling some spaghetti deep in a tech-debt-ridden repo:

find the bug causing function

only comment:
`//TODO: replace this once <jira_ticket_url> is done`

go to url

updated: 3 years ago

I miss CS undergrad

F**k this. Exactly The same site is displaying differently. Only thing changed? On left access is by local IP, on right by URL using no-ip.

Apparently it grabs CSS from project on another port

Thinggs to consider before adding non english letters/words to your url patterns:
1. Don't do it, you won't have a good time.

I've deployed a react app in GitHub user page, but entering a wrong URL still showing me the index.html of app. Hence, hindering the access to my GitHub projects page, any way to solve this ?

Nice update

!(!pun) && !rant

Hell yeah, it its funny!
Thanks, YouTube!

I hate websites that heavily relies on javascript for showing webpages.

Debugging in deep "pages" is so much time consuming.

Also, it is not possible to link to specific inner "page" since url stays same.

Our company has an internal url shortening link called go/ . I just created a link to devrant.io/feed.

You know you have some level of skill with a computer when you google (i prefer duck duck go) something, and you look at the url below the results instead.

- Implemented oauth1 - no body hashing
- URL contains credentials in plain text
- Used Azure API management feature as a proxy of the our API, however the documentation was on the our API, thus exposing the API URL with no management to developers.
- easy resource DDoSing because each trial user got a DB, the registration process did not have bot checks. You could literally freeze the db instance by spamming registration requests.

Browsers are really terrible with printing.

This is annoying when building web apps for internal use in businesses.

There should be a JavaScript way to select (or at least ask the user to confirm) what is printed on the borders of the page instead of the standard date, time, url, page x of x.

That moment when you forget you're on the live environment and you git pull --rebase from an old repo because you thought you were on a local box and you set the wrong url for the git project.

"Here customer, have the username, password, and URL of our developer's CI environment! You can test all of your features there. "

" Devs: Please don't make any changes to dev code that would cause the CI system to run."

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

Today I wasted hours trying to do a HTTP POST request by using a query string in the URL. After some hours I realised what I was doing wrong. I'm so stupid.

Basic REST server authentication: pass a valid username in the URL of your request and you can publish trade and market data that's used by other systems.

I think they're moving to oAuth now but... These developers are slow and only do things when a gun (Sr. Management) is held to their heads.

Directions...

You ask folk, give me a google street view URL, so I can find you.

But no, each bloody time they send you a complicated list of directions which refer to some previous landmark that was there a hundred years before you was born, and give you a picture of their house.

Great, I'll just search all 10,000 square miles of where you say you roughly live (Australian outback..) till I find the picture of your sodding house !

For goodness sake, just follow simple instructions, when someone asks for a google street view URL, they mean a URL so they can see where the bloody place is on the map !

Rant over..

Even a satellite picture and X marks the spot would be useful !

Good: local news website has an interactive news paper online
Bad: You have to pay for it
Good: Found the exposed URL to all of the paper images
Bad: can't download from its parent directory
Good: made a shell script to download all images

What about using https for an URL on a security certification...?

My name is url

Identical configuration.
Application won't find proper base URL locally.
Application will find proper base URL on test and prod instances.
Excuse me, what the FUCK?

I don't understand how you can have a webshop and live from it, and yet still don't know where to type in a web url.. How the f..

You can provide a URL to the data, but you can't make them think.

Trying to pass an array in URL as a path variable
(Spring)

Spending 4 days to connect gitlab with cloudbees (not my choice) through Jenkins file and find that I didn't work because the URL I set in the form in gitlab had a "/" at the end of the cloudbees URL.....

There's people that should be in jail.

Or at least they should be banned to use a computer. And I'm looking directly at this company that provides a dodgy API, which is just a ton of static XML files hosted behind an apache. One file per language, of course. You want the prices too? Another url. In German? Oh, another url.

Wait, they're working on v3!! Which will support... json! I don't give a damn about json as long as you provide some sanity with your urls godfuckit.

What are people's thoughts on having a personal website/portfolio?

I've set one up on GitHub pages with my custom URL, mainly to host SQL tutorials etc that I make, but do employers look at them?

If your client is interested in Accelerated Mobile Pages, get it in writing and include a fee for undoing AMP if they don't like it. If you don't update Google's AMP project cache directly with a special URL for each and every blog post and page URL you AMP, Google holds onto the AMP page in its SERPS and CDN for eternity! Even doing the reminded and manual URL update, this stuff can still be around for a month. Ugh.

Was testing an editor for writing technical documentation. Asked their support:

Hey ___, am I right in thinking you can't paste images directly from clipboard into a document?

Couple of hours later:

Hi ___, yes, you can add images by uploading them: <url>

The URL they provide has no examples of being able to paste images directly from the clipboard. provides Trying to figure out if this is yes-but-no or no-but-yes.

Did you know, any time you copy text on Windows 10, windows saves the url of the page you copied it from?

Don't know where it is saved, or how long it is cached, but the more you know.

Steps to replicate:
Go into your browser, copy any text from any site. Close the window.
Open one note. Paste text. Theres the url.

I think clipboard saves the url when you copy text from a browser, dunno. but its interesting.

I worked 2012-2016 for a big telco company in my country and there was this HTTPS webpage with an iframe rendering any url you passed over the ?url query param plus a header with the company's logo.

I was on a meeting with some friends in charge of social media and they found it for a user report.

Unbelievable 🤷🏻‍♂️ I remember I tried the page's url itself and it rendered a loop of the header with the company's logo 😂

AWS documentation and their paid tech support sucks so fucking much. Jesus fucking balls

P.S. Can any of you explain to me how to generate pre-signed url for GET request for CCP transcriptions?

Just heard a QA member say whilst training a starter:
'We are going to do some hacking now'

He just changes a URL argument.

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Wanted to share a devrant post to a non-dev friend. Sent URL link. His phone sends him to the app store to download devRant. Can we not?

The fucking worst part about web dev is getting the damn .htaccess file to work properly. I usually do some basic url rewriting but then it won't work locally, or I have to restart the server (which of course I fucking forget), and then suddenly it *does* work without restarting the server... Just arghhhh

What do you guys think about backend developers who design&implement POST requests with URL parameters? Is this even legal? 🙄

Months ago, created sophisticated func. Left URL as a comment for ref. Need to add more lines to that func so I clicked the link to remind me how/why but website page is no longer!