Timeline for Understanding of HTTP GET request
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| Feb 25, 2023 at 15:02 | comment | added | Tom | @mentallurg I specifically wrote that this is most likely the case. | |
| Feb 25, 2023 at 11:36 | comment | added | mentallurg |
@Tom: The it is obvious that the usage of .php in URL assumes that the server is configured to pass such requests to a PHP engine. Otherwise you are inconsistent.
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| Feb 25, 2023 at 9:45 | comment | added | Tom | @mentallurg obvious example domain is obvious | |
| Feb 25, 2023 at 1:48 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 |
@mentallurg If we're nitpicking that much, then it says webapp.thm, not webapp.thm. – so it doesn't matter whether there's a thm TLD, since this isn't a fully-qualified domain name, and it can be resolved locally. (We can nitpick further still, and question why any assumptions are being made about the configuration of the DNS root. There are already relatively-popular alternative DNS roots out there, so that's not even unresonable.)
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| Feb 24, 2023 at 23:13 | comment | added | mentallurg |
@Tom: Formally, you are absolutely right. But if you like nitpicking so much, then why don't you say that the question makes no sense at all, because there is no such TLD as thm, thus the website webapp.thm does not exist and the request cannot be sent anywhere and it makes no sense to ask what the server will do?
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| Feb 24, 2023 at 22:46 | history | edited | Criticizing Israel not allowed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 24, 2023 at 11:07 | comment | added | Tom | This is the only correct answer. The part after the domain is passed to the webserver and that decides what to do with it. Everything else is assumptions based on conventions. Most likely, it'll execute get.php and pass in the rest as a parameter, but due to rewrite rules and other server stuff, that isn't guaranteed to be the case. | |
| Feb 22, 2023 at 18:45 | history | answered | Criticizing Israel not allowed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |