contributing to wikipedia
Monday, February 28th, 2005my first contribution : toor
My contributions page : wikipedia/Contributions/aguy_likeme
Archive for the ‘hacking’ Category
HTTP GET request
Monday, February 7th, 2005Suppose you want to fetch index.html from www.google.co.in
if you connect to proxy server (say 192.168.36.204 in our case ), say using
$ telnet 192.168.36.204 8080
then your request should be something like
GET http://www.google.co.in/index.html HTTP/1.0 (followed by two newlines)
If you can directly connect to www.google.co.in, say using
$ telnet www.google.co.in 80
then your request can be like
GET index.html HTTP/1.0 (followed by two newlines)
PS : If you are using shell, two newlines means pressing enter twice, and in the code newline means \n\n
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Someone asked me about it through mail. Thought can post it to blog too. Its easy for me to refer, and helpful for others also.
favicon.ico @ students.iiit.net
Thursday, February 3rd, 2005students.iiit.net now shows its own Favourite/Bookmark Icon ( the icon of a web page, that appears at tab).
By default the icon for a webpage is favicon.ico in servers web root.
The icon can be changed per page basis using -
<head>
<link rel=”SHORTCUT ICON” href=”http://www.mysiteaddress.com/myfavicon.ico”>
</head>
did u notice the icon for this page.
Unfortunately my opera does not support per page icons.
Is’nt there any icon editor in linux. I could not find any decent icon editor to edit .ico files, and finally i did it on windows. 
20 Year Usenet Timeline @ google
Tuesday, January 18th, 2005http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html
Its nice to read the mails/articles (usenet news) which has changed the world, the way we live.
The mail from Torvalds. He talks about Linux 0.02 .
“This is a program for hackers by a hacker. I’ve enjouyed doing it, and somebody might enjoy looking at it and even modifying it for their own needs.”
He didnot know that time, that this kernel will drive the world some day.
Linux was not a standalone kernel that time. It needed minix to run it.
Other articles like Stallman’s announcement of GNU : New Unix Implementation : Free Unix, Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web, mention of Lisa , MS Windows , TCP/IP, Y2K problem and more…
Worth going through.
Thanks to Jaya for forwarding the link to me.
Thanks to google.com .
