[PLUG] Re: Reading computer time stamp over internet

[Keith Morse]

Alex Daniloff wrote:
> Hello Linux folkz,
> I went to this web site:
> http://greenwichmeantime.com/gmt-timestamp.htm
>
> and saw that they somehow read the time stamp right from
> my PC. 
> I'm behind the firewall and all ports are in stealth mode
> I wonder, how they do this. Is it a part of TCP/IP protocol or
> environmental variable of my browser?
>
>   
 Undoubtably,  quite a bit of info is contained the http conversation
between your browser and the web server.  Fire up tcpdump or ethereal
and capture the session to see all the information that changes hands. 
Very informative.