TELE202 Lecture 16 Internet applications (1) 1 Lecturer Dr Z. Huang Overview ¥Last Lecture »Socket programming »Source: chapter 17 ¥This Lecture »Internet applications (1) »Source: chapter 19 ¥Next Lecture »Internet applications (2) »Source: chapter 19

TELE202 Lecture 16 Internet applications (1) 2 Lecturer Dr Z. Huang Client/Server ¥TCP is like a telephone service »Applications using the service need to establish connection with their peers by using socket functions, just like (a little bit more complicated than) placing a telephone call ¥Client/server model »Server: provide service »Client: request service from a server ¥Server’s control flow »Accept connections from a client by using socket primitives »Receive a request from the client »Process the request and send a response to the client ¥Client’s control flow »1. Request connection with a server by using the socket primitives »2. Send a request message to the server »3. Wait to receive the response message from the server »4. Repeat step 2 and 3 until there is no more request »5. Close the connection with the server

TELE202 Lecture 16 Internet applications (1) 3 Lecturer Dr Z. Huang Electronic mails ¥Mailbox »Each recipient has a mailbox, which is a storage area (a file) on disk ¥Each mailbox is assigned a unique address ¥When a sender wants to send a mail to address name, it first locates the host’s IP address by using DNS, and then establishes connection with the host and transfers the mail using SMTP ¥Each host has a mail server which can receive mails to its mailboxes and deliver them to the corresponding mailboxes

TELE202 Lecture 16 Internet applications (1) 4 Lecturer Dr Z. Huang SMTP ¥Simple Mail Transfer Protocol ¥ is delivered by »the source host establishing a TCP connection to port 25 of the destination host »An daemon on the destination host listening to that port »The daemon speaking SMTP ¥Simple ASCII protocol (RFC 821, 1425) ¥SMTP operation »First the client (the source host) establishes a connection with the server (the destination host), and then waits for message from the server »The server sends its identity and tell the client whether it will accept mail. »If the server is willing to accept the mail, the client sends the name of the sender of the and intended recipient. »If it is a valid recipient, server sends a go- ahead message. »Message is sent and acknowledged. »When all the has been exchanged, connection is released.

TELE202 Lecture 16 Internet applications (1) 5 Lecturer Dr Z. Huang Mailbox location ¥On which computer to place the mailbox? »The computer should be available all the time »Should have enough resources, such as memory space and CPU capacity »Should be connected to Internet continuously ¥How can PCs with dial-up connection to Internet receive mails? ¥The mailboxes normally reside on mail servers and PCs fetch mails from the servers using Post Office Protocol (POP) ¥POP is very useful for computers which don’t have permanent Internet connection, such as laptops

TELE202 Lecture 16 Internet applications (1) 6 Lecturer Dr Z. Huang POP3 ¥Post Office Protocol version 3 »RFC 1225 ¥Servers are used to hold mails for machines which are not regular mail servers. »Laptops »PC's »MAC's ¥ POP3 is used to fetch mails from a remote mail server and store it locally. ¥POP3 operation »The client first sends a login and a password to authenticate the session. »Once authentication has been accepted, the client sends commands to retrieve a copy pf one or more messages »The server transfers the messages and deletes them from the permanent mailbox »Logout ¥Both POP3 and SMTP manipulate the mailbox. To ensure correct operation, the two servers must coordinate use of the mailbox.

TELE202 Lecture 16 Internet applications (1) 7 Lecturer Dr Z. Huang format ¥ format is part of the protocols of SMTP and POP ¥ s consist of a header and a body which are separated by a blank line ¥Header includes information about the sender, the recipient, date, format of the content, and etc From: To: Date: Fri, 25 August :21:32 Subject: lunch with me Content-Type: text/plain ¥Body contains only plain text ¥Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) »Used to encode binary data »Specify the encoding schemes used in the body »Normally base64 encoding is used to convert binary to ASCII

TELE202 Lecture 16 Internet applications (1) 8 Lecturer Dr Z. Huang exploders and gateways ¥ exploder »Maintain mailing lists in a database »When a mail to a mailing list is received, it forwards the mail to each member of the list ¥ gateway »A computer dedicated to processing s is often called an gateway »It can run exploders and forward s »It also maintain a large database for mailing lists »When a message is sent via an gateway, it passes across the Internet at least twice »It can manage automated mailing list. Users can send subscribe or unsubscribe message to join or leave a list without human intervention »By using a gateway, eg atlas, a computer can be removed or renamed without changing the employee’s address, e.g.

TELE202 Lecture 16 Internet applications (1) 9 Lecturer Dr Z. Huang FTP ¥File Transfer Protocol »Widely deployed Internet file transfer service »Oldest application protocol used in Internet and predates TCP/IP ¥How does FTP work? »TCP is used for data/commands transfer »Use open command to establish a control connection with a FTP server –open tigger.otago.ac.nz »The control connection is used to send commands and receive responses »If a file is required to be transferred, a data connection is established between the client and server –get somefile »The file is transferred via the data connection which is closed once the transfer completes »The control connection is up until the command close or bye is typed

TELE202 Lecture 16 Internet applications (1) 10 Lecturer Dr Z. Huang Other file applications ¥Trivial File Transfer Protocol(TFTP) »Similar to but simpler than FTP »UDP, instead of TCP, is used »Smaller set of commands, excluding commands for file interrogation, e.g. ls »Does not support authorisation. A client does not send a login name or password; a file can be transferred only if the file permissions allow global access »Advantages –Can be used when UDP is available but TCP is not –Less memory required in TFTP, which is required in a small special purpose hardware device –It is especially useful for bootstrapping a hardware device which does not have a disk on which to store system software »A small hardware device may only have TFTP, UDP and IP in its ROM, and transfer the system software from a server to its memory using TFTP when bootstrapping ¥Network File System (NFS) »Allows an application to open a remote file without transferring the entire file »Save network bandwidth »It gives the user an illusion that he/she has the file locally, though the file may be miles away

TELE202 Lecture 16 Internet applications (1) 11 Lecturer Dr Z. Huang World-wide Web ¥WWW History »Began in 1989 at CERN (European center for nuclear research) by a physicist Tim Berners- Lee »Text based prototype operational 18 months later »Mosaic in February 1993 by Marc Andreessen, who formed Netscape Communications Corp. a year later »World Wide Web Consortium formed by CERN and MIT in 1994 »When Netscape went public in 1995, investors paid 1.5 billion dollars for the stock for only one product ¥Browsers are used to display web pages, while servers provides the requested documents ¥Hypertext Transfer Protocol(HTTP) »Used for communication between browsers and servers ¥Uniform Resource Locators(URL) »Used to locate a document (web page) »protocol://machine/path to file ¥HyperText Markup Language (HTML) »Language used to write web pages

TELE202 Lecture 16 Internet applications (1) 12 Lecturer Dr Z. Huang Web server and browser ¥A web server performs a straightforward task repeatedly »Waits for a browser to open a connection and request a specific page »The server then sends a copy of the requested item, closes the connection, and repeat above ¥Web browsers have a more complex structure than Web servers »A browser contains several large software components that work together to provide the illusion of a seamless service »A browser consists of a set of clients, a set of interpreters, and a controller managing them »It interprets both mouse and keyboard input »Normally when it receives a request from the user, it asks HTTP client to request the requested HTML page and then asks the HTML interpreter to display the page

TELE202 Lecture 16 Internet applications (1) 13 Lecturer Dr Z. Huang HTTP Scenario ¥The browser gets a URL from user ¥The browser determines the URL ¥The browser asks DNS for the IP address using the IP name in the URL ¥The browser makes a TCP connection to port 80 (usually) of a remote host specified by the IP address in order to connect to the Web server ¥Then the browser sends a GET command giving the path to a file as a parameter ¥The Web server sends the requested file back to the browser ¥Then the browser release the TCP connection ¥The browser displays the text of the page according to the semantic of HTML ¥The browser may further use HTTP to fetch the images on the page

TELE202 Lecture 16 Internet applications (1) 14 Lecturer Dr Z. Huang HTTP Protocol ¥HTTP »ASCII protocol »Each interaction consists of one ASCII request, followed by one MIME-like response (RFC 822) »A HTTP response consists of a header and a body separated by a blank line HTTP/ OK Date: Thu, 27 Apr :03:16 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.0 (Unix) Last-Modified: Thu 17 Sep :32:53 GMT Content-Length: 1310 Content-Type: text/html »A new TCP connection is established for each HTTP interaction ¥Protocol methods »GET: request a Web page »HEAD: request the header of a page »PUT: request to store a Web page »POST: request to append to a resource »DELETE: request to remove a Web page »LINK: connect two existing resources »UNLINK: break a connection between two resources

TELE202 Lecture 16 Internet applications (1) 15 Lecturer Dr Z. Huang Summary ¥Client/server ¥SMTP ¥POP3 ¥ exploders and gateways ¥FTP ¥TFTP ¥NFS ¥WWW ¥HTTP ¥URL ¥HTML