10-04-2007, 09:40 PM
To actually delete a website..... you would have to have access to the server (authorized or unauthorized access)
Websites come from servers.
Servers in their simplest form are, for example, your web browser sends your click to the server, which means, for example, "give me the locations.cfm page from the http://www.dtiassociates.com web site", and bam! the server shoots you the page, and your web browser takes the content and lays out the text and pictures of DTI Associates locations nationwide
I actually program servers to do far far more than this.
A server can gather data from a database server and stuff it in a Web page while it is creating the Web page on the fly (and not from a text file that never changes). A server can get a list of email addresses from a database and send them to an email server to generate emails.
It is easy to create password-protected Web pages, for example. The crucial centerpiece is the SESSION VARIABLE. A Web form sends your user name and password to a dynamic Web page that tries to find your user name and password in a table of users, if it doesn't find a match on both user name and password, you aren't authorized, you don't get in. If you do, it sets a session variable that says you are authorized. All the secure Web pages check for this session variable before the server finishes generating the Web page, and either directs you to a "bad login" page or the page you wanted. On logout, the server kills the session variable living on your browser. (You can still back button back into the Web site because the pages are cached (put in memory for faster loading), ALWAYS CLOSE YOUR WEB BROWSER AFTER LEAVING A SECURE SITE, this dumps the cache, and denies Snoopy a chance to get in)
But anyway
1. If you had access to the database behind a Web blog, you could send an instruction to delete the blog message. You tell the database to delete the message using SQL (using Access is the same except a user friendly Visual BASIC interface is doing all the SQL work for you)
2. To delete a static Web page, you would have to log in as administrator (or break in) and delete the file using a user friendly Windows kind of interface (a Visual BASIC user friendly operating system that does all the hard work of sending Disk Operating System commands to the machine for you).
Websites come from servers.
Servers in their simplest form are, for example, your web browser sends your click to the server, which means, for example, "give me the locations.cfm page from the http://www.dtiassociates.com web site", and bam! the server shoots you the page, and your web browser takes the content and lays out the text and pictures of DTI Associates locations nationwide
I actually program servers to do far far more than this.
A server can gather data from a database server and stuff it in a Web page while it is creating the Web page on the fly (and not from a text file that never changes). A server can get a list of email addresses from a database and send them to an email server to generate emails.
It is easy to create password-protected Web pages, for example. The crucial centerpiece is the SESSION VARIABLE. A Web form sends your user name and password to a dynamic Web page that tries to find your user name and password in a table of users, if it doesn't find a match on both user name and password, you aren't authorized, you don't get in. If you do, it sets a session variable that says you are authorized. All the secure Web pages check for this session variable before the server finishes generating the Web page, and either directs you to a "bad login" page or the page you wanted. On logout, the server kills the session variable living on your browser. (You can still back button back into the Web site because the pages are cached (put in memory for faster loading), ALWAYS CLOSE YOUR WEB BROWSER AFTER LEAVING A SECURE SITE, this dumps the cache, and denies Snoopy a chance to get in)
But anyway
1. If you had access to the database behind a Web blog, you could send an instruction to delete the blog message. You tell the database to delete the message using SQL (using Access is the same except a user friendly Visual BASIC interface is doing all the SQL work for you)
2. To delete a static Web page, you would have to log in as administrator (or break in) and delete the file using a user friendly Windows kind of interface (a Visual BASIC user friendly operating system that does all the hard work of sending Disk Operating System commands to the machine for you).
