View source for Browser

Have you ever wondered what happens when you are surfing the www? How does the text show up so pretty in your web browser?

 $ telnet [[variables|yashy.com]] 80

and once you see

 Trying 206.248.137.44...
 Connected to yashy.com.
 Escape character is '^]'.

then type

 GET / HTTP/1.0

hit [ENTER] twice, and watch the text scroll by. This is the information ([[HTML]]) that is sent to your web browser. You may also be interested in the extra information transfered when using [[SSL]].
You can verify this by running a [[sniffer]] and then browsing a webpage.


== [[Debian]] ==

To change your default browser in a debian based distribution like Ubuntu:

 sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

and choose the one you want from the list of your installed browsers.