From where the browser takes the "Address"

From where the browser takes the "Address"

[Blesson Paul]

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Hi all
                         I think this question is encountered by all 
irrespective of the platform they are working. In both IE and Netscape, 
there is a  location showing the "Address" of the page. My question is from 
where, browser will takes the  "Address" ?.

Is the HTTP Respose from the Web Server contains the Address and will the 
browser takes it from there.
Is the browser itself will do the work. I mean, will the browser  simply 
put the "URL" clicked by the user in the Address Box.

regards
Blesson Paul





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Re: From where the browser takes the "Address"

[Mogens Valentin]

Blesson Paul wrote:
> 
> Hi all
>                          I think this question is encountered by all
> irrespective of the platform they are working. In both IE and Netscape,
> there is a  location showing the "Address" of the page. My question is from
> where, browser will takes the  "Address" ?.
> 
> Is the HTTP Respose from the Web Server contains the Address and will the
> browser takes it from there.
> Is the browser itself will do the work. I mean, will the browser  simply
> put the "URL" clicked by the user in the Address Box.

??? Do you mean: Type in i.e. yahoo.com, and the browser shows it's
connecting to that sites IP-address?
If so, it's a simple dns lookup. Else I fail to understand your Q.

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Kind regards / venlig hilsen,
Mogens Valentin, Mr Dev

IT Networking, Security, Server Setup
www.danbbs.dk/~monz   mrdev@danbbs.dk

RE: From where the browser takes the "Address"

[Daniel Chemko]

The browser address is the last page connected to a web site.

There are a few times that this gets weird.

CGI posts don't change the address screen, so if I have a URL
http://www.fooseballsinc.com and my / page relates to a CGI scripts, I
might be navigating too many pages, but since it is through the CGI, I
don't see that on the browser page.

A lot few DNS Providers host HTTP forwarder services like described
above, so if the site was hosted off them, it would always look like the
site was http://babalala/ even if it was a different page inside.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mogens Valentin [mailto:monz@danbbs.dk] 
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 3:42 AM
To: Blesson Paul
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: From where the browser takes the "Address"

Blesson Paul wrote:
> 
> Hi all
>                          I think this question is encountered by all
> irrespective of the platform they are working. In both IE and
Netscape,
> there is a  location showing the "Address" of the page. My question is
from
> where, browser will takes the  "Address" ?.
> 
> Is the HTTP Respose from the Web Server contains the Address and will
the
> browser takes it from there.
> Is the browser itself will do the work. I mean, will the browser
simply
> put the "URL" clicked by the user in the Address Box.