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How to get the 'final url' of a Google AdWord's Ad?

As Google AdWords changed from using the JavaScript function of getDestinationUrl, I've tried switching my AdWord's script to use urls().getFinalUrl(), however this only gives me the index page of the site, rather than the full URL.
Using getDestinationUrl now returns null, as expected, because it is deprecated.
How does one go about getting the final URL?
Currently I have:
selectedAdUrl = selectedAd.urls().getFinalUrl();
Returns:
http://www.example.com/
Instead of the actual final URL, as in Google AdWords:
http://www.example.com/an-example-page

php dynamic page content based on url

So, there are 3 urls:
example.com/first
example.com/middle
example.com/last
In my sql db, there is table with each terms that correspond to related posts:
ID NAME POSTS
1 first 12,3,343
2 middle 23,1,432
3 last 21,43,99
So if an user visits example.com/first, then I want to show posts of "12,3,343" and other posts based on what url they are visiting.
Now, this is the sequence how it would work in my head:
User types "example.com/first"
js (ajax) or something detects the url (in this case, detects "first").
the term is sent to php query.
Gets appropriate info then sends it out (either by ajax or something else).
Am I approaching this right?
How does the server detects what url was requested? I supposed I can skip the first two steps if I know how the server detects the url and I can query the correct info directly instead of relying on js to detect it.
Thanks!

When you mention ajax, I assume you are not navigating away from the page your are on. Am I correct?
If so, you have to create another php file to respond to the requests:
A request is sent to file.php with the url as a query string
In file.php, let it query the DB and json_encode the data.
Retrieve the data and update the fields without navigating away.
PHP is only executed once (Server-side). if you want to execute another query you have to either navigate to other URL or just send your request to a php file via ajax.

You can get the segments of a url request using below statements
$url = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH);
$segments = explode('/', $url);
Now you have all the segments in an array ($segments)
print_r($segments) to get the index of the segment you require.
Now compare that segment with your value
For Eg :
if( $segments[2] == 'first')
{
//Your Piece of code
}

POST to .jsp website with Python requests library

I'm using Python 3.3 and Requests 2.2.1.
I'm trying to POST to a website ending in .jsp, which then changes to .doh ending. Using the same basic requests code outline I'm able to successfully login and scrape other websites, but the javascript part on this site is not working. This is my code:
import requests
url = 'https://prodpci.etimspayments.com/pbw/include/sanfrancisco/input.jsp'
payload = {'plateNumber':'notshown', 'statePlate':'CA'} #tried CA and California
s = requests.Session() #Tried 'session' and 'Session' following different advice
post = s.post(url, data=payload)
r = s.get('https://prodpci.etimspayments.com/pbw/include/sanfrancisco/input.jsp')
print(r.text)
Finally, when manually entering data into the webpage through firefox browser, the page changes and url becomes https://prodpci.etimspayments.com/pbw/inputAction.doh, which only has contet if you are redirected there after typing in license plate.
From the printed text, I know I'm getting content from the page as it would be without POSTing anything, but I need the content for the page once I've POSTed the payload.
For the POST payload, do I need to include something like 'submit':'submit' to simulate clicking the search button?
Am I doing the GET request from the right url, considering the url I POST to?

You're making POST request and after that another GET request and this is why you get the same page with the form.
response = s.post(url, data=payload)
print(response.text)
Also if you check the form markup, you'll find its action is /pbw/inputAction.doh and additionally the form sends a few parameters from hidden inputs. Therefore you should use that URL in your request and probably the values from hidden inputs.
With the next code I'm able to retrieve the same response as via regular request in browser:
import requests
url = 'https://prodpci.etimspayments.com/pbw/inputAction.doh'
payload = {
'plateNumber': 'notshown',
'statePlate': 'CA',
'requestType': 'submit',
'clientcode': 19,
'requestCount': 1,
'clientAccount': 5,
}
s = requests.Session()
response = s.post(url, data=payload)
print(response.text)
The same you can see in browser after same request via the form:
...
<td colspan="2"> <li class="error">Plate is not found</li></td>
...

fetch data from a url in javascript [duplicate]

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I am trying to fetch a data file from a URL given by the user, but I don't know how to do. Actually, I can get data from my server successfully. Here is my code:
$("button#btn-demo").click(function() {
$.get('/file', {
'filename' : 'vase.rti',
},
function(json) {
var data = window.atob(json);
// load HSH raw file
floatPixels = loadHSH(data);
render();
});
});
It can fetch the binary data from my server, parse the file and render it into an image. But now I want it work without any server, which means users can give a URL and javascript can get the file and render it. I know it's about the cross-site request. Can you tell me about it and how to realize it?
Thanks in advance!

assuming your URL is the address of a valid XML document this example will go grab it. if the URL is on a different domain than the one that's holding your scripts you will need to use a server side scripting language to got out and grab the resource (XML doc at URL value) and return it your domain. in PHP it would be ...
<?php echo file_get_contents( $_GET['u'] );
where $_GET['u'] is a URL value from your USER. let's call our PHP script proxy.php. now our JavaScript will call our proxy.php and concatenate the URL value to the end which will allow us to pass the URL value to the PHP script.
addy = $("#idOfInputFieldhere").val();
$.ajax({
url: 'proxy.php?u='+addy, /* we pass the user input url value here */
dataType:'xml',
async:false,
success:function(data){
console.log(data); /* returns the data in the XML to the browser console */
}
});
you'll need to use the js debugger console in chrome to view data. at this point you'd want to pull out data in a loop and use find() http://api.jquery.com/?s=find%28%29

I'm not very familiar with jQuery, but as I know, due to the same origin policy, the browser won't let any JavaScript code to make an AJAX request to a domain other than its own. So in order to retrieve some data (specially JSON formatted), you can add a <script> element to your page dynamically and set its src property to the address of the data provider. Something like this:
<script src='otherdomain.com/give_me_data.json'/>
This only works if you need to access some static data (like the url above) or you have access to the server side code. Because in this scenario, the server side code should return an string like:
callbackFunction({data1: 'value1', data2: 'value2', ...});
As the browser fetches the item specified in src property, tries to run it (because it know it's a script). So if the server sends a function call as a response, the function would be called immediately after all data has been fetched.
You can implement the server side in such a way that it accepts the name of the callback function as a parameter, loads requested data and generates an appropriate output that consists of a function call with loaded data as a json parameter.

Partitioning a JSP page accessed through an ajax call

I have a page in which I am making an ajax call, which in turn gets forwarded to a jsp page and returns a table constructed in this jsp.
Till now this jsp used to return an html which the original page(table) used to append in a particular div. But now, we have a requirement that this jsp along with the table, returns some other info about the metadat of the query.
With this change, I would ideally not like to change the existing behaviour of some clients where they are just appending the html. But then, is there a way, in which the new pages which make this call can have both the html table(which can be appended) as well as metadata returned (which can be processed).
let me know if the question isn't clear enough.
Thanks!

The easiest and least destructive change would be to send it as response header.
In the servlet you can use HttpServletResponse#setHeader() to set a response header:
response.setHeader("X-Metadata", metadata);
// ...
(using a header name prefixed with X- is recommended for custom headers)
In JS you can use XMLHttpRequest#getResponseHeader() to get a response header:
var metadata = xhr.getResponseHeader('X-Metadata');
// ...
You can even set some JSON string in there so that (de)serialization is easy.