Lecture Notes

These notes are an adjunct to the reading for the course. They are intended to provide information that is complementary (or redundant) and possibly useful.

Networking Intro, Probability, Idealized Networks (Tan. 1)
Panko (1) : Intro
P1, P2: Standards, Protocols, Stacks
More P2, start P3: Physical Layer
P4, PC Network
P4, P5: Larger Networks
P5, P6 - Internet Apps, Security
P7, Intranet Apps. and Other Networks
Module A, More on TCP/IP
Module B, Propagation

Homeworks

This semester's homeworks.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Resources

Online resources related to data networks

Standards

Various WWW qualitative and quantitative criteria

Web Robots

Robot exclusion standard by Martijn Koster

Robots FAQ

WWW Specifications and Standards

MIME Type discussion, code examples, mailcap files, and more.

HTML 3.2 Specification

Adds widely deployed features such as tables, applets and text flow around images, while providing full backwards compatibility with the existing standard HTML 2.0.

RFC standards and other important documents

RFC 977

Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)

RFC - 1413 IDENT protocol

gather the login name from a TCP connection

RFC 1806

Presentation Information for Client-side File Handling

RFC 1867

Form-Based File Upload

Server Push, Client Pull by Netscape

Martin Ramsch's HTML Character Set [ISO8859] Table

Ever wonder how to make weird characters in an HTML page? Here's the complete table.

code for printenv which lists all the HTTP environment variables for a given client session.
code for anag.cgi which uses logic based on Method (Get, Post) --- this is the code behind the anagram application.

Useful CGI code (in Perl).

Publications

For Your Reading Pleasure: Miscellaneous articles on the WWW, protocols, etc...