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Can ISPs see the full adress you put into the adress bar?

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nstgc:
I've been wondering this. If I put in, for instance www.site.com\page will they only see "site" or will they also see "page"?

bork:
what will be seen is your computer doing a DNS request to resolve it to a IP address.  You computer then will send the URL request to the address that the DNS resolved.  It basically blasted out to a lot of systems to get the request to work.  Its best to think that every time you make a browser request, its the same as standing in the middle of the street yelling "I want to see nenpho pictures from the website porn are us"

Pentium100:
Yes, the ISP can capture packets and see the request you make to an unsecure (http) server and see the returned page.

(click to show/hide)GET /167185-akb0048-720p-10-bit-evetaku.html HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.63
Host: bakabt.me
Accept: text/html, application/xml;q=0.9, application/xhtml+xml, image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, */*;q=0.1
Accept-Language: en,lt-LT;q=0.9,lt;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1, utf-8, utf-16, *;q=0.1
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, x-gzip, identity, *;q=0
Referer: http://bakabt.me/browse.php?limit=15&page=1
Cookie: last_torrents=a%3A0%3A%7B%7D; last_visit=a%3A3%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bi%3A1345257332%3Bi%3A1%3Bi%3A1345257368%3Bi%3A2%3Bi%3A1345257362%3B%7D; __utma=258658201.103968967.1345257098.1345257098.1345257098.1; __utmb=258658201.5.10.1345257098; __utmc=258658201; __utmz=258658201.1345257098.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none)
Cookie2: $Version=1
Connection: Keep-Alive, TE
TE: deflate, gzip, chunked, identity, trailers
If you do not want your ISP to know what you are sending, you ave to use secure (https) severs. Then the data is encrypted so the ISP (or anyone else on the wire) cannot decrypt it. If you want to make sure that your ISP does not know what server you are sending the data to, you have to use anonymizing networks, like TOR.

kitamesume:
^ i think proxies under HTTPS works too.

Pentium100:

--- Quote from: kitamesume on August 18, 2012, 07:10:39 PM ---^ i think proxies under HTTPS works too.

--- End quote ---

HTTPS proxy will make it impossible for your ISP to see the data, but the proxy operator will see it (and will know your real IP). TOR makes it so that no node knows who you are, who you are talking to and what you are saying at the same time (the first node will know your real IP, but not the server or data, the last node will know the server and the data, but will not know your real IP, intermediate nodes know neither your IP nor the data).

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