LIS 390W1A - Lab 4: 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.illinois.edu:21/pub/dept/brochures/Courses93-94

Question 2:

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

http://www.illinois.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.illinois.edu

To submit this assignment, write it up in an HTML file with the requisite component parts (DOCTYPE declaration, meta tag, proper html tag, etc.), upload it to the GSLIS I: drive and then send me a URL.

Out of 25 points total.

• Question 1: 8 points
• Question 2-4: 4 points each (12 points total)
• Quality of HTML: 5 point