Web Server Design Assignment #2: Conditionals & Persistence Due: 02/24/2010 Old Dominion University Department of Computer Science CS 495/595 Spring 2010 Martin Klein

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: – the class list –mimic the behavior of a well known Apache server (e.g.,

Methods to Support Same as assignment #1 More guidance re: OPTIONS –mime type response will be “message/http” –with a content length of 0 (i.e., do not return an entity body) –support the “*” URI –from section 9.2: If the Request-URI is an asterisk ("*"), the OPTIONS request is intended to apply to the server in general rather than to a specific resource. Since a server's communication options typically depend on the resource, the "*" request is only useful as a "ping" or "no-op" type of method; it does nothing beyond allowing the client to test the capabilities of the server. A 200 response SHOULD include any header fields that indicate optional features implemented by the server and applicable to that resource (e.g., Allow), possibly including extensions not defined by this specification. The response body, if any, SHOULD also include information about the communication options. The format for such a body is not defined by this specification, but might be defined by future extensions to HTTP. Content negotiation MAY be used to select the appropriate response format. If no response body is included, the response MUST include a Content-Length field with a field-value of "0".

Methods to Support Any GET method that does not result in a 20X response code MUST have a text/html entity generated by the server explaining the response code HTTP/ Bad Request Date: Mon, 16 Feb :30:12 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.0 Content-Length: 296 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso Bad Request Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Apache/2.2.0 Server at Port 80 HTTP/ Moved Permanently Date: Mon, 16 Feb :33:10 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.0 Location: Content-Length: 305 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso Moved Permanently Moved Permanently The document has moved here. Apache/2.2.0 Server at Port 80 HTTP/ Method Not Implemented Date: Mon, 16 Feb :34:01 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.0 Allow: GET,HEAD,POST,OPTIONS,TRACE Content-Length: 293 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso Method Not Implemented Method Not Implemented NOTAMETHOD to /index.shtml not supported. Apache/2.2.0 Server at Port 80

Status Codes to Support Same as assignment #1, plus: –301 Moved Permanently if “/foo” is a directory, the server should 301 redirect to “/foo/” –302 Found takes a configurable list of regular expressions and provides URIs that the server should 302 redirect to –304 Not Modified –412 Precondition Failed

302 Redirection # # Incoming RE302 URI # ^(.*)/index.html$$1/fairlane.html ^(.*)/1.[234]/(.*)$1/1.1/$2

Request Headers Same as assignment #1, but: –optional: Connection: close implies supporting persistent & long-lived connections and add: –If-Modified-Since –If-Unmodified-Since –If-Match –If-None-Match

Response Headers Same as assignment #1, plus: –ETag

MIME Types Same as assignment #1

Further Guidance Only “strong” ETags need to be computed –see week 3 lecture for a possible implementation Use a logical “AND” when combining: –If-Modified-Since –If-Unmodified-Since –If-Match –If-None-Match –be stingy: all conditions must be satisfied to send data if conditionals would yield both 304 & 412, then send only the 304 Terminate connections after 15 idle seconds

Directory Listings Have a configurable file substitute for directory listing. –e.g., on requests for “…/foo/”, Apache will substitute “…/foo/index.html” if it is present. –our “special file” for A2 will be “fairlane.html” Why? Good question! (because we like Fairlanes)

Keep in mind: Status report next week!

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