🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 23:13:22 -0500, "mike" <mfbrowne@earthlink.nnet>
wrote:

>I have a basic question that I am trying to understand. Could some explain 
>to me what is happening on the server side when this is entered in a web 
>browser.
>
>http://someserver:2300/help/12345/full
>
>Of course this is a fictional site and I understand the request will go to 
>port 2300. The other thing is that the number 12345 can be any number. What 
>I don't understand is what or how is this request is handled on the server 
>side. That is, if I make a request like this then information is returned to 
>my browser, and if I change the number then different information is 
>returned.
>

In the simplest of the servers, /help/12345/full will be the name of
the file you request, it might be located (if it were a windows
server) on c:\public_data\help\12345\full.html

In more complex serevr, it could be abosultely anything. The server
might scan the request and behavedifferently according to it. For
instance, it may look at /help and decide you are asking for a suuport
case, then it will see /12345 and know it refres to support case
/12345, after that /full tells it to create an HTML page with full
details of support case # 12345, and send it to you.

Regards,

Zara