Testing the Three Networked Machines

Just to make sure that everything is still in order:

Finally, start Internet Explorer 3.01 on machine A, and enter in the following URL:

http://<Machine B’s name or IP>/TestPage.htm

This, of course, assumes that you've placed the

TestPage.htm
file at the root of the web supported by machine B's Personal Web Server.

As the web page loads, you'll see the Calendar control activate (albeit quite slowly). Try clicking on a cell to select the event list and get the event details. Remember that the control coding has to initialize the ATLDept objects on machine C from machine A with dummy data across the network.

Notice how the entire application still functions as it did when it was standalone. The only difference is the slower network based operation.

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