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Can someone help me understand this 直打ち, as used in the following sentence:

`URLを直打ちしてアクセスされた可能性があります。`

(this is an error message in a log file)

My dictionaries have no idea what this word means. As far as I can tell this
means something like:

`"There's a possibility that there was a directly accessed URL"`

So 直打ち means "direct access", 直 as in 直接 (directly) and 打 as in 打つ (hit)

Also regarding the reading, i asked a couple of Japanese people and got told
both: じかうち and ちょくうち

any ideas which is correct in this context?
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meaning definitions computing
What does 直打ち mean? also whats the reading?
This is the prefix
[`直{じか}`](http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?p=%E3%81%98%E3%81%8B&stype=0&dtype=0&dname=0ss)
("direct"), plus `打{う}ち`, a noun form of the verb `打つ` ("to hit"), which in
this case refers to typing ("hitting" keys).

Although I couldn't find a dictionary entry for this exact term, it's
described in the entry for
[IP直打ち](http://www.weblio.jp/content/IP%E7%9B%B4%E6%89%93%E3%81%A1) in the
IT用語辞典 on Weblio, which confirms that the reading is `じかうち`. This page also
confirms that it means "direct(ly) input".

I think the message means there's a possibility the URL was typed directly
rather than followed from a link. Since this is in a log file, perhaps it
indirectly means there's no [_HTTP
referrer_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referrer) information. (In which case,
it might show up even in cases where the URL wasn't directly entered, like if
you use a "favorite" link; cases like these might be why it says a
_possibility_ of being typed directly.)
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