Basic Internet Excercise

In this exercise we test your understanding of HTTP and extract information using firebug. You must answer all the following questions and email me the answers. I will be asking you to show me how you found the answers to these questions.

1. Who is the administrative contact for microsoft.com?
2. Who is the administrative contact for csce242.com?
3. How can you see which websites everyone in the lab is visiting?
   1. What are you assuming?
   2. Could you see the wall messages they type to facebook.com?
   3. Why will this work for checking up on users at a different building? Explain.
4. What web server does www.google.com use?
5. What web server does www.live.com use?
6. Use telnet to speak HTTP directly with www.yahoo.com and get their main page.
7. What is the Content-Encoding that yahoo returns? what does it mean?
8. Why is it that the page you received (via your telnet session) from yahoo is not gzipped?
9. How do you get the browser to automatically load a different page from the one it asked for?
10. How many GET's are needed to load all of www.google.com?
11. How many GET's are needed to load all of www.yahoo.com?
12. When doing a search at yahoo.com, what other parameters are sent?