exercise1c.md

Exercise 1c: Make your own HTML file

Inside the src directory is another directory called server, and inside there is pages.

Create a new HTML file in there. Use the (few!) types of tag supported by the browser.

You should make sure you know how to add these tags:

• a href
• b

Make it work end-to-end!

Here's how to run the server:

python3 src/server/http_server.py

Then use the browser to visit (exactly):

http://localhost:8000/exercise1c.html (change exercise1c.html to whatever you called your page)

Tip

You need to run the browser and the server at the same time. The best way to do this is to type Control-Z, and then type bg, which will run the browser in the background. (You can see this by typing jobs.) Another way is to open another terminal and then run cd browser-learning then . venv/bin/activate.

Ensure you can see bold text and hyperlinks.

What's up with?

http://localhost:8000/exercise1c.html

• http here is the "scheme". That is, it's an agreement in the way that the browser and server communicate. There are others including https and ftp. We'll see the details of http later
• localhost: this is a special name which means "your own computer". Since the web server is running on your own computer, that's what we'll connect to.
• :8000: this is called the "port number" and isn't very important right now. A single computer can be running several different web servers, and each has its own port number. We chose 8000 for our server. (The standard port is 80, but we're not using that for our exercises in case something else is already using that port number.)
• exercise1c.html: the nae of the HTML page that the browser will request from the server.