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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
Http protocol - what does a web server send

Question - what information do you send using http protocol from a web server?

1. HTML (e.g. .html)
2. Images (e.g. .jpg, .gif, .png)
3. Icons (e.g. .ico)
4. Style Sheets (e.g. .css)
5. Java Scripts (e.g. .js)
6. Applets (e.g. .class)
7. Video (e.g. .rm, .mpg, .mp4)
8. Sound (e.g. .mp3)
9. Flash (e.g. .swf)
10. Text files (e.g. robots.txt)
11. XML (e.g. sitemap.xml)
12. HTML++ embedded scripts (e.g. .php, .jsp)

Answer - all of the above EXCEPT No. 12, which is stored on the web server computer's discs, but is used to generate content of the other types listed - typically HTML - before it is sent to the browser.

Further Explanation - Although the name makes is sound as if HTTP is used to send HTML, that's only a part of the story. Originally, HTML was the main content sent via HTTP , but these days when you browse a web page, the intial HTML will trigger your browser to make further HTTP requests for images, and perhaps many of the other elements listed above from (2) to (9).

Only rarely will you call up files like robots.txt (which tells search engines and other automata where they should not go) and sitemap.xml (which you may use to set up to inform the search engines about the relative priority of pages that they may index), but automata will call them up, fairly often, via HTTP if they exist.
(written 2010-01-24)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
A207 - Web Application Deployment - HTTP
  [484] Setting the file name for a downloaded document - (2005-11-03)
  [1378] Etag in http headers - what is it? - (2007-10-03)
  [1503] Web page (http) error status 405 - (2008-01-12)
  [1549] http, https and ajp - comparison and choice - (2008-02-22)
  [2321] Uploading and Downloading files - changing names (Perl and PHP) - (2009-08-04)
  [2738] What is all this SESSION stuff about? (PHP) - (2010-04-25)
  [2918] Downloading a report from the web for further local analysis - (2010-08-13)
  [3432] 3 digit HTTP status codes - what are they, which are most common, which should be a concern? - (2011-09-11)


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