Score of 55
Accepted
Can a website in itself be dangerous?
Web browser are programs that can have vulnerabilities just like any other software.
This means that simply browsing a web site with a web browser that has a remote code execution vulnerability could ...
- reputation score 8095
Score of 44
Website error: "Walmart can’t use this browser"
Entering https://www.walmart.com/ as the URL does not open until the site has left cookies in the browser. Going into the site from a search engine, with added referrer in the URL, or, as @Spike ...
- reputation score 43526
Score of 41
Accepted
Can a single server be associated with multiple domains?
Can a single server be associated with multiple domains?
Yes. This would be done by pointing those domains at your web server via DNS.
If I own the "x.x.x.x" web server, can I make two separate ...
- reputation score 18597
Score of 31
How can I recover data from a website after shutdown?
You are almost assuredly correct that a database ran in the backend. Since the site was shutdown, without a doubt, the database and server side code that ran it is completely gone. The page you are ...
- reputation score 75860
Score of 29
Accepted
What is a web site doing while displaying "Checking if the site connection is secure"?
with a message like "Checking if the site connection is secure":
"Review security of your connection" has nothing to do with security or connection, it means "Checking ...
- reputation score 520890
Score of 28
Accepted
Why is there a website needed when having a mail-only domain?
No. You don't need a website for an email address and having one does very little if anything for your (email sending) reputation - certainly email won't be rejected just because you don't have a ...
- reputation score 73968
Score of 26
Recover text from webpage turned into gibberish characters (����F�)
That web server seems to be serving up a gzip-compressed version of the HTML file you were looking for. This is probably due to a web server misconfiguration. You might try contacting the webmaster ...
- reputation score 111644
Score of 22
How to download a complete website from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine?
You can do this easily with wget.
wget -rc --accept-regex '.*ROOT.*' START
Where ROOT is the root URL of the website and START is the starting URL. For example:
wget -rc --accept-regex '.*http://...
- reputation score 449
Score of 15
Recover text from webpage turned into gibberish characters (����F�)
For completeness, here's the PowerShell (5.1, latest supported in Windows 7 & default in Windows 10/11) equivalent of Spiff's answer:
$targetFile = New-Item -Type File adjectives.html
$resp = iwr &...
- reputation score 64518
Score of 14
Accepted
How to download/ save my own website?
You have a few options:
Use a WordPress backup plugin, like UpDraft to create a backup of your WordPress files and database. UpDraft and other plugins can create a file to download, or even put the ...
- reputation score 75860
Score of 12
Can a website in itself be dangerous?
If you take a look at this and previous generation of video game consoles (PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series), the web browser is what is used to exploit bugs in the firmware to gain access to ...
- reputation score 58813
Score of 12
What's the safest way to open a suspicious link?
If you don't want to interact with the suspicious webpage and instead just quickly want to see what it is, the easiest and safest way to open the link is probably by using an online screen capturing ...
- reputation score 229
Score of 11
How can I recover data from a website after shutdown?
How can I recover data from a website after shutdown?
YOU probably cannot.
As you've found out, the Wayback Machine has limitations on what it is able to cache from the web.
If you didn't cache it ...
- reputation score 9898
Score of 10
How do I completely download a web page, while preserving its functionality?
Browser add-on: Save Page WE Firefox / Chrome
A firefox/chrome add-on which is lighter than the web-recorder mentioned below, and which worked well for a subset of use cases. Configurable, flexible, ...
- reputation score 8339
Score of 8
Extract files from a web archive (.warc)
ReplayWeb.page replaces Webrecorder Player which replaced WebArchivePlayer.
No app to install, just go to the page and browse to your file. All processing is local.
- reputation score 239
Score of 8
Can a website in itself be dangerous?
Websites could be dangerous if browsers have vulnerabilities. But even if there aren't any vulnerabilities in your browser, they could be dangerous depending on your definition.
They could exploit ...
- reputation score 254
Score of 8
Accepted
Can a website serve only a subset of glyphs from a font, instead of the entire a font, on loading?
What does it mean to share part of a font? It's a file right? How's a file any usable if you only have part of it?
For one, that's not necessarily true; many file types are not "all or nothing&...
- reputation score 520890
Score of 7
Accepted
Single keyboard shortcuts for right click menu items
Answer
To always see the underlined letter, you need to go to the Ease of Access settings in Windows (you can use Win+U to get there quicker).
Windows 10:
Find and click Keyboard on the left-hand ...
- reputation score 226
Score of 7
What risks are you taking when "signing in with Google"?
As @Tetsujin mentions, you share personal data with Google they would not otherwise have. You also share with the other account information from Google that they would not otherwise have.
Another risk ...
- reputation score 363
Score of 6
How do I set my wallpaper to a web page on Mac OS X
I made a modern app for this. It's free and open-source: https://github.com/sindresorhus/Plash It supports showing both remote and local websites. It can force websites into fake dark mode. You can ...
- reputation score 524
Score of 6
How to download a complete website from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine?
The hartator version wayback-machine-downloader does not work any more, does not get updates any more, has open issues.
Luckily someone took over: https://github.com/ShiftaDeband/wayback-machine-...
- reputation score 834
Score of 6
How does a website prevent the pasting of a password or email address?
Answer: JavaScript
Look at the source code of the page you link to.
<input type="text" size="30" maxlength="99" onkeydown="clearErrMsg(event)" onblur="validateEmail(false)" onpaste="SFDOMEvent....
- reputation score 10986
Score of 6
Website error: "Walmart can’t use this browser"
It's not just Firefox that is having this issue. I've also seen Mac users posting they are also seeing the issue in Safari. I have tried all updated versions of Chrome, Edge and Firefox and all get ...
- reputation score 71
Score of 5
How to download a complete website from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine?
Interesting enough the official answer is to use a third party service and they list a few services presently:
https://waybackrebuilder.com
http://waybackdownloader.com
http://www....
- reputation score 1580
Score of 5
How to download a complete website from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine?
Wayback Machine Downloader works great. Grabbed the pages - .html, .js, .css and all the assets. Simply ran the index.html locally.
With Ruby installed, simply do:
gem install ...
- reputation score 182
Score of 5
Accepted
What is the maximum number of websites that can exist?
This is relatively simply math based on known quantities.
First you need to know the maximum length of of the DNS part of a URL, and that's 253 characters, more or less: https://stackoverflow.com/...
- reputation score 55746
Score of 5
Accepted
Apache+PHP+MySQL for latest Windows 10
Installation
Apache
Download a copy of Apache from Apache Lounge. You will probably want to download a current 64-bit edition (httpd-2.4.43-win64-VS16.zip). Once the .zip file is downloaded, extract ...
- reputation score 18597
Score of 5
Can a single server be associated with multiple domains?
Something to keep in mind if you're using HTTPS (HTTP+TLS): There is a specific order of operations at the start of the transaction:
The incoming connection is made using the server's IP address.
The ...
- reputation score 236
Score of 5
I can't block Facebook addresses with /etc/hosts
This is not working as websites are served via HTTPs and IPv6 protocol by default now a days, so you need to map As shown in this image Facebook to IPv6’s localhost notation as well. Then you can ...
- reputation score 51
Score of 5
How to permanently block 'Sign in with Google' suggestions from websites?
uBlock Origin extension for Firefox can be used to block specific items. Within uBlock Origin running:
Right-click on the popup (or overlay).
Select Block element...
A filter editor will show the rule ...
- reputation score 43526
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible