CS158a
Chris Pollett
Jan. 26, 2011
Most people know the internet through its applications:
http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~pollett/index.shtmlThe first part: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/ indicates that HTTP, the hypertext transfer protocol, should be used to get the resource and also the name of the machine in which the resource lives; the last part,/~pollett/index.shtml, actually identifies the page location on that machine.
The expectation one has on a network depends on what kind or customer of the network you are:
Next day, we will discuss other high-level consideration are made in the design of networks and we will look at common network architectures