Workshop

Quiz

1:The following URL will work as expected. 
<A HREF="/cgi/foo.pl?name=Ben Franklin&Job=printer">

  1. True.

  2. False; you can't pass two parameters to a CGI program like this.

  3. False; the space in the name Ben Franklin is not allowed.

2:Server-side includes are processed and expanded by what?

  1. The browser

  2. The Web server

  3. The operating system

Answers

A1: c. You should use escape to properly hide spaces and other special characters.
A2: b. The Web server converts the SSI HTML tags into their final values before sending them to the browser.

Activities

  • Use a Telnet client to connect to one of your favorite Web sites, and try fetching a Web page manually.

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