How to get correct URL in HTTP header?

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How to get HTTP header (Content-Type) from URL with Javascript

Good afternoon! Here is what I am trying to achieve. I have an input which allow the user to enter an URL (mostly for images) but it can also be a different type of file. I am searching for a way to verify that the url exists and also get the mime type. Here is a jsfiddle of my javascript tests. I found a way to do it using a PHP and AJAX with a function like that: PHP: function get_url_content_type( $url ) { $header = get_headers( $url, 1 ); if ( isset( $header['Content-Type'] ) ) { return...

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jQuery will already convert the response based on the content type (check this url for details) if you...

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Has anyone used the HTTP Accept request header to switch between website and api?

We have an ecommerce website that displays groups of products by category using a URL format that maps almost exactly to the REST URL format we would like to use for our forthcoming API. e.g. example.com/products/latest or example.com/products/hats We...

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I guess you could go it like that. one approach would be to do a rewite to the api-service if the client...

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What's wrong with using the HTTP refer(r)er header to determine the URL of the page containing an <iframe>?

That is, why can't the server responding to the <iframe>'s HTTP request trust the HTTP_REFERER of that request?  Even if some user agents don't send it, at least the containing site doesn't have any control over the header. This is a follow-up...

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The http referer header can easily be spoofed and cannot be used for any security decisions.

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My home page URL changes to http://my.yahoo.com/p/d.html?v and page does not load. Get Error message instead.?

My home page url is http://my.yahoo.com. When I click on home page, this url loads instead: http://my.yahoo.com/p/d.html?v resulting in the following error message: "Sorry, the ...show more

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The MyYahoo team arrogantly removed the "old version" of the MyYahoo page and is FORCING all...

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Can I get http://bit.ly to show a webpage without stopping the url shortning of my short domain?

I have 2 domains. example.co.uk and examp.le (these are just dummy names) i have set the A-record to point to http://Bit.ly and the short urls are working fine and verified. but ive tested to see what happens when i type examp.le into a browser and it...

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no answer so ive been looking into it. turns out you can do this simple using htaccess. root redirect...

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How can i get my web personal link/url http/wwwjustsayhimundere?

Please i opened a personal link/URL which is http/wwwjustsayhimundere but i can not find it on the web site.

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you have been cheated !

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I am trying to get this one for my homepage it is url yahoo http;//www.yahoo.com/?

i am trying to made this my homepage url yahoo.com http;//www.yahoo.com/ but something will not let me do it it keep going to https;// I do not want that one I have 2 e mail 05 ...show more

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https is hyper text transfer protocol secure. It makes no different if its http or https, one secure...

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Why does the following AJAX call doesn't return new url from success and change URL in browser after returning from controller?

I am working on a Spring MVC project where the homepage has two input fields. Both input fields are of String type. But the regNo field gets number and if the user enters the regNo it should be taken to the corresponding method in controller. If the...

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I think your ajax call is not executing... check for it .

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What model is the best for URL Similarity/URL Pattern Recognition?

I am trying to come up with a model that will go over a number of URLs in a training set and identify new patterns in the test set. Let's say I have 2 sets of URLs that comes to my website First set includes the following: http://www.google.com/url?somert...

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I would frame it as a classification problem and use character n-grams.

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Apache's handling of spaces in GET request

Hi, I have developed a PHP script. This script is intended to be accessed through the AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) client, rather than a typical web browser like Internet Explorer. A link to the .php file is placed in the AIM user's profile. The syntax...

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Hi, whiteout, and thanks for your question. While it is possible to use the insanely powerful mod_rewrite...

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