It was thus said that the Great Chase once stated: > > Assuming someone types "www.somedomainname.com/somefilename.htm" into > the location field in their favorite browser... > > A browser would never request like this would it: > > GET /somefilename.htm > > ?? > > > Since so many websites are using shared ip addresses, don't requests > made by browsers, just to be safe, **always** use the fully qualified > URL: > > GET http://www.somedomainname.com/somefilename.htm > > ?? A browser would do a lookup for the IP address for "www.somedomain.com" and once retreived, would connect to TCP port 80 at that address, then send (at a minimum) the following: GET /somefilename.htm HTTP/1.1 Host: www.somedomain.com blank line -> (followed by a blank line). Usually there's more information that the browser passes along, like: GET /somefilename.htm HTTP/1.0 Host: www.somedomainname.com Accept: text/html, text/plain, video/mpeg, ... [cut rest of line] Accept: application/postscript, ... [cut rest of line] Accept: image/x-xbm, image/gif, application/postscript, */*;q=0.01 Accept-Encoding: gzip, compress Accept-Language: en Negotiate: trans User-Agent: Lynx/2.8.1pre.9 libwww-FM/2.14 Referer: http://linus.groomlake.area51:8080/ blank line -> The webserver then responds with its own headers, then the content: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 03:56:09 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) Last-Modified: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 07:11:18 GMT ETag: "85876-540-381a9a16" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 1344 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html blank line -> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Nothing here ... move along</title> -spc (Knows waaay too much about this stuff ... comes from helping to write a webserver ... ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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