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- ViewHEAD 1.0.3: Freeware HTTP utility for Win32
- Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Jem E. Berkes
-
- E-mail: jberkes@pc-tools.net
- Web: http://www.pc-tools.net/
-
- Comments, suggestions, bug reports welcome.
-
- This program is freeware, but is not in the public domain.
- Reverse engineering and/or code modification is strictly prohibited.
- This software must be distributed in its entirety.
-
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- PURPOSE
-
- Whenever a web browser sends an HTTP request to a web server, it is
- in turn sent a set of HTTP headers that contain valuable information
- about the web server and the document which is about to be sent. These
- headers are, for the most part, hidden because most newer browsers
- don't give the user any way to see them.
-
- ViewHEAD allows you to view these HTTP headers. It sends out a HEAD
- request (which, by RFC 2068, "MUST be supported by all general-purpose
- servers"), and shows the user the response from the web server.
-
- Note: If you are behind some kind of a firewall or proxy server, you
- may not be able to use ViewHEAD.
-
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- MORE ABOUT HTTP HEADERS
-
- The HTTP headers included in a server response often contain:
- - The type of software that the web server is running
- - The remote time and date
- - The time and date when the file was last modified
- - The MIME type of the returned file
- - The size of the returned file
- - Cookie settings
-
- For example, here are the headers from http://www.apache.org/
-
- HTTP/1.1 200 OK
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 23:20:57 GMT
- Server: Apache/1.3.15-dev (Unix) tomcat/1.0
- Cache-Control: max-age=86400
- Expires: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 23:20:57 GMT
- Connection: close
- Content-Type: text/html
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- USING THE PROGRAM
-
- ViewHEAD uses a very straightforward GUI interface. Enter the complete
- URL, then click the View button. The headers will then be retrieved and
- displayed.
-
- The URL has to be a complete hypertext transfer protocol URL. This has
- the format:
- http://host[:port]/pathname
-
- So for example, the following are all valid requests:
- http://www.server.com/directory/file
- http://www.server.com:80/directory/file
- http://www.server.com
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- REVISION HISTORY
-
- Version 1.0.3:
- - User now enters a URL (http://etc)
-
- Version 1.0.2:
- - Added minimize button
- - Built using Microsoft's updated runtime libraries
-
- Version 1.0.1:
- - Added firewall/proxy warning to text file
- - Improved application's help screen
- - Improved main documentation
- - Changed HTTP/1.0 request to HTTP/1.1
- - Added version resource to ViewHEAD.exe
-