LIS 390W1A - Lab 5: Decomposing URLs

You may wish to refer to the class readings to help complete this lab:

• Graham, Ian (1998). Uniform Resource Locators
• Mapping URLs to Filesystem Locations

Question 1:

Parse this URL into the Scheme, Host, Port, and Path. Describe what each component is.

ftp://ftp.cs.uiuc.edu:21/pub/dept/brochures/Courses93-94

Question 2:

Parse this URL into the Scheme, Host, Port, and Path.

http://www.uiuc.edu/resources/announcement2.html

Question 3:

Create a URL for accessing the file depicted below. This file is being served by an ftp server running on port 3064. The server has the IP address 192.168.0.1

Question 4:

Create a URL for accessing the file depicted below. This file is being served by a web server running on port 80. The server has the host name iserve15.lis.uiuc.edu

To submit this assignment upload it into either Netfiles or the GSLIS I: drive and then send me a URL.

Out of 25 points total.

• Question 1: 10 points
• Question 2-4: 5 points each (15 points total)