Thursday, March 25, 2010

Trace the route of a web request

Did you ever wanted to see what happens when you type that URL in the address bar of a browser? Well, I always wanted to see the path taken by a web request before the page appeared in the browser.

This application stopped working for a while now. So, I have updated the code and fixed the issues. It seems to be working fine again.

So to make this happen I developed a small application. The application will take a web address such as "www.google.com" in its URL text box and on clicking the submit button will give you details of the route taken by the web request along with a map.The displayed google map plots the physical locations of the servers the web request traversed through.

It is not a critical application to have but nevertheless it is so much fun. It can be downloaded from the following location: http://www.mediafire.com/?wk0qhaa1oct110l

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