Web Server Design Assignment

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Web Server DesignAssignment 1 Basic Operations
Old Dominion University Department of Computer
Science CS 495/595 Spring 2006 Michael L. Nelson
ltmln_at_cs.odu.edugt
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Grading

• To be done by an automated program that will test
  most (all?) combinations
• assignment is listed under the day it is to be
  demoed in class
• each group will give a 3-4 minute status report
  the week before an assignment is due!
• If you have a question
• email the class list
• mimic the behavior of a well known Apache server
  (e.g., www.cs.odu.edu)

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Methods to Support

• GET
• HEAD
• OPTIONS
• TRACE

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Status Codes to Support

• 200 - OK
• 400 - Bad Request
• 403 - Forbidden
• 404 - Not Found
• 500 - Internal Server Error
• 501 - Not Implemented
• 505 - HTTP Version Not Supported

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Request Headers

• Connection close
• Host IP hostname

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Response Headers

• Date
• Server
• Last-Modified
• Content-Length
• Content-Type
• Connection close
• Allow

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MIME Types

• text/plain
• text/html
• text/xml
• image/png
• image/jpeg
• image/gif
• application/pdf
• application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
• application/vnd.ms-word