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Netprog 2002  -  HTTP
/program/finger?hollingd
•The web server treats everything before the ‘?’ delimiter as the resource name
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•In this case the resource name is the name of a program. (could be a CGI script, a servlet, or your own HTTP server)
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•Everything after the ‘?’ is a string that is passed to the server program (in the case of CGI and servlets)