I have a stumper for you:

Lets say your friend geeks out one morning and writes her own web browser in java.
She brings it over to you and asks you to try it out but explains that YOU MUST USE EXPLICIT COMMANDS FOR EVERYTHING.

You run the browser for the first time, and want to come to the forums opening page, which you usually type "examnotes.net/forums" to bring up...

What do you need to type (assume file name) in order to see the latest the page?

***Please assume that this is a run of the mill site.

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Do you just mean:

http://www.examnotes.net/forums/index.html ? I'm just thinking "It can't be that simple." Let me know...

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That won't get you there.

Hint: there's a lot of information you didn't give to your new browser with that.

Think about what has to happen to establish communication between your computer and the server.

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Yeah, I got it.

http://www.examnotes.net:80/forums/index.html Is that going to do it?!

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Good Start!!!

Now, take it to the next level....

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Last edited by Psydefx on 01-26-02 at 07:54 AM

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As far as path goes, that's all that I can figure out. If I'm missing something, it must be really simple. That makes it harded to figure out!

If you want some HTTP command that the browser needs to go out and get the file at the path specified, I wouldn't have a clue what that was. I've never learned any.

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Does said web browser have access to a DNS server?

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I guess in that case it would be

http://128.242.228.49:80/forums/index.html

So what else do you want Psydefx?

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Maybe the answer will be enough to develop a conversation:

get_http://www.examnotes.net.:80/forums/index.php_http v1.1

(Please excuse underscores, they are here to keep it together.)

the "get" statement - tells the browser what it's doing.

http:// - Protocol declaration

www.examnotes.net. - FQDN, Notice the root (.)

[ (FQDN)
www - host
.examnotes - domain
.net - top level domain
. - root domain
]

:80 - Port declaration

(At this point, you have created a TCP socket (protocol+IP(from FQDN)+port)

/forums - virtual directory (MS term)

/index - default file (index, default)

.php - file extension (.php,.htm,.html,.asp)

http v1.1 - Protocol version (provides some usability paramiters for web servers)


Please let me know what you think.

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Well, like I told you, I didn't know what the HTTP command was to get the location... So it is the same as an FTP command?

Apparently this web browser can handle Domain Name Services then, huh? I just heard that the root domain was . this week in 2151. Oh well.

I didn't know you could specify the protocol and version.

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