On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

...Unless you tell them.

Answer the question posed by the server. Your reply will be used to try to determine if you are a dog or a person. Push the reset button between trials to reestablish the communication link to the server.

If you get an error, the server may not be running, or you may be trying to answer the question before it is asked.

 

In 1993 a cartoon by P. Steiner appeared in the New Yorker magazine. A dog was typing at a computer and talking to another dog over its shoulder: "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog."

This server was taken from the book Just Java, by Peter van der Linden, published by Prentice-Hall. It attempts to determine if a client is a dog by asking it a question. The client answers the question and the server determines if the client is a dog or not. The question is: "If I met you would you shake my hand, or sniff it?"

 

You can see the cartoon at http://www.unc.edu/depts/jomc/academics/dri/idog.html

 

Here is the DogServer code.

Here is the DogApplet code.