Goals

Understand how browsers send requests to servers (GETs and POSTs) and what responses servers return to browsers.

Notes

Read this nice HTTP tutorial from Lars M. Garshol.

Exercises

Here are some Windows shell commands that will help explore HTTP. To start a shell, run:

cmd

Get raw Web data

telnet www.sba.oakland.edu 80

GET /faculty/mathieson/index.html HTTP/1.0
<blank line>

GET /jimbo.html HTTP/1.0
<blank line>

GET /faculty/mathieson/images/oulogo2.gif HTTP/1.0
<blank line>