Is the Web Down: a Practical Tutorial on How the Web Works
*Excerpt
You click on a link and you can't get to your favorite web site. Now what? Is the web site down? Is it your connection? Is it something in between? How can you figure out what's wrong if you don't know how it works? We'll show you everything that happens after you click a link so next time the web site is down you'll know what to do to fix it.
Description
Most users have only a vague idea of how the web works. They click on a link and their precious pictures of baby zoo animals come up… somehow. Something about HTTP or HTML… there’s a server somewhere… and some magic rainbow ponies to carry all the data around. Without knowing how it works, you can’t solve even the most basic problems. This is why you’ll hear other people ask, “is Google down for anyone else?”
We’ll explain it all. You’ll learn enough to know how it all works and what might have broken. We’ll explain how your web browser talks to web servers, how web pages show up on your screen, and what you can do to take control of your browser. How your computer knows what server to talk to and how the Internet gets information from point A to point B without anyone “owning” the Internet. We’ll explain lots of acronyms you might have heard before and what they do: HTML, HTTP, DNS, TCP, and UDP all on the PDQ with extra TLC and a touch of LOL to boot.
After this talk you’ll have a broad understanding of how the web and its plumbing works.
Tags
http, dns, tcp, gestalt
Speakers
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Joshua Keroes
Integra Telecom- Website: http://keroes.com/
Biography
Joshua has been getting paid to write Perl since 1997. His first programs fingerprinted every NNTP news server on the internet to determine what software each was using. These days, he uses Perl to manage network devices and systems.
Sessions
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- Title: Is the Web Down: a Practical Tutorial on How the Web Works
- Track: Chemistry
- Room: Marquam
- Time: 1:45 – 2:30pm
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Excerpt:
You click on a link and you can’t get to your favorite web site. Now what? Is the web site down? Is it your connection? Is it something in between? How can you figure out what’s wrong if you don’t know how it works? We’ll show you everything that happens after you click a link so next time the web site is down you’ll know what to do to fix it.
- Speakers: Michael Schwern, Joshua Keroes
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Michael Schwern
Open Sourcery- Blog: http://use.perl.org/~schwern/journal
- Twitter: schwern
- Identi.ca: schwern
- Favorites: View Michael's favorites
Biography
Michael G Schwern hates writing bios. You’ll just have to come meet him.
Sessions
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- Title: Is the Web Down: a Practical Tutorial on How the Web Works
- Track: Chemistry
- Room: Marquam
- Time: 1:45 – 2:30pm
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Excerpt:
You click on a link and you can’t get to your favorite web site. Now what? Is the web site down? Is it your connection? Is it something in between? How can you figure out what’s wrong if you don’t know how it works? We’ll show you everything that happens after you click a link so next time the web site is down you’ll know what to do to fix it.
- Speakers: Michael Schwern, Joshua Keroes
