browsing to a Java Server

If the thread is set up to listen for incoming http/gopher/ftp/... that is supported by your browser, you simply enter an address in your browser of the form:

http://host.name.com:710/path/to/file where 710 is the port which the thread is listening on.

If you want a more generic way to exchange 7-bit and 8-bit character data with a port, try using "telnet" instead. You can access telnet from your command/DOS prompt, or you can get a better one like CRT Telnet from:

http://www.vandyke.com/products/crt/index.html

With this tool, you can enter the hostname that you want to telnet to _and_ you can enter the port. You can also set terminal settings to address any quirks in the connection (i.e. 7-bit connection).

You now would enter standard commands that are expected and supported by the server. For HTTP, you can type things like "GET /" to interact with the server using raw instructions that are typically handled for you by your browser.

Telnetting to a port is a great debugging tool and also lets you determine if ports are up and running in an easy manner if you don't have a port-scanner installed on your machine.

There are a number of good port scanning tools. You can check these out at:
http://winfiles.cnet.com/apps/nt/net-info.html (typically the NT/98 versions are the same but realize that this URL is for the NT network tools).

Steve

>> how can i browse to this port

you have to implment a small web server that serves the client request and returns the appropriate info (HTML status code)

..

In my view

telnet servername port

is the easiest tool to see the output on that particular port.

so ?

whow
heh