outline.txt

5  Intro
25 Unit A
25 Lab A
25 Unit B
25 Lab B
25 Unit C
25 Lab C
10 Wrap up
(15 flextime)


Intro
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me
inspiration - HTTP itself is simple, we've built the complication on top

Unit A
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ip, tcp, udp, connection vs not, socket abstraction, socket pairs, 'server' vs 'client', telnet as socket client


Lab A
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Play with simple TCP sockets. One request/reply, no threads.
Socket excercise. Start with example echo client & server, modify to create a time server. Bonus, create whatismyip service: tell the client its' IP address.

Unit B
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some protocols, HTTP, telnet HTTP demo

Lab B
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Write a basic HTTP client with sockets (and hints!). Do GET, print only body.
- basic curl implementation. bonus for supporting --head.

Unit C
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walk through the 30 minute webserver, this is it, everything else is features: better performance, programmer abstractions, security

Lab C
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Modify the "30 minute webserver" to add a resource with dynamic content. (basically, make some url return the value from time.time() as a proxy for some computation)
what's my IP site
show specific examples of dynamic content running

Wrap up
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go forth and conquer the world!
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