Internet World Wide Web and Web HTTP Servers

HTTP is the transport protocol of HTML. Web servers speak HTTP.

<cr> shows where to press the enter key; don't type <cr>. <domain> is the whatever.com that you are trying to reach. <file> is the file on that server e.g. index.htm.

To learn more about http try:

telnet <domain> 80<cr>
GET /<file> HTTP/1.0<cr>
<cr>

In most cases today, because of virtual hosting, you will need to use HTTP/1.1 and respecify the domain via "host":

telnet <domain> 80<cr>
GET /<file> HTTP/1.1<cr>
host: <domain>
<cr>

Web servers:

Apache
IIS
Personal Web Server
Cinchy server, Win32Asm Web Server (8,704 Byte TOTAL executable size!)

Internet Web Site Hosting Providers.

Clients@, TCP/IP@, CGI@ Win32AsmCGI@, HTML@, ecommerce, Passwords, RESTful APIs

SX Microcontroller TCP/IP

PIC Microcontroller TCP/IP

See also:

http://serveo.net/ Service uses SSH to re-direct traffic to a local server, even through ISP blocks.
James Newton of MassMind refers to " http://web.archive.org/web/20150323132245/www.cyberspyder.com/download/setupWebBug.exe WebBug is a great little program that shows you exactly what was returned for any web request."
/techref/showall.asp See all the information that is available from your browser to this server
http://www.iconlabs.net/ipcheck.htm Activex componet to report the IP address of the local machine.
telnet://techref.massmind.org:80?GET+/index.htm+HTTP+1.0%0A%0A Use telnet to see the actual data transferred in an HTTP request.
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2616.txt The chapter of the internet bible for HTTP
- Local copy of the status codes
Free search engine for web servers?
http://drorshalev.brinkster.net/security.htm Excellent security site
http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/ thttpd - tiny/turbo/throttling HTTP server. Open source. One windows port.

Just remember, the first webmaster was female... her first home page said "Some Pig" and was regularly updated.... -- Paul Sawyer

Robots.txt lists items that (well behaved) index engines (search bots, web crawlers, etc...) should not request.

A captcha (an acronym for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart") is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human.

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