Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Assignment 2, HTML and eMail Traces

Looking Inside your HTTP Packets:

The first site I visited was CNN.com because of the size of content and popularity. No surprise that they use Apache and the HTML returned was massive.

The second site I visited was Google. I was expecting to see some sort of server designed by Google and again wasn’t surprised. They use Google Web Server which according to it’s wikipedia page is the most popular web server software behind Microsoft and Apache though it is far behind the two.

The third site was Blogger where I post my assignments. I expected to see the GWS software since it is owned by Google but it came back with GFE/2.0. After doing a search for this I found out it stands for Google Front End and is used for Blogger, Gmail, Docs, and Picasa among other things.

"Tracing your E-mail"

The first email I traced was an order confirmation that I received from eTrade last week. Their corporate office is in NYC but the trace showed that the email came from Jersey City, NJ to St. Joseph through KCMO and Overland Park, KS. A web search shows that they have a financial center in Jersey.

The Second email I traced was entitled “Nude Teens attack” which apparently is a warning of a coming nude teen revolution. It took a long trip from Singapore:



The third email I traced was sent from my school email to my gmail account and took a longer route than I thought it would:

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