1. Web Server Design Assignment #1: Basic Operations
Old Dominion University
Department of Computer Science
CS 495/595 Spring 2012
Michael L. Nelson

2. 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 person 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.,

3. Methods to Support
GET
HEAD
OPTIONS
TRACE

4. 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

5. Request Headers
Connection: close
Host: [IP hostname]

6. Response Headers Date Server Last-Modified Content-Length Content-Type
Connection: close
Allow

7. Limited Functionality!
Points will be deducted for headers, response codes, etc. that are not explicitly defined in this assignment!

8. MIME Types text/plain (default mime type) text/html text/xml image/png
image/jpeg
image/gif
application/pdf
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
application/vnd.ms-word
message/http

9. Your Access Log… GET /.well-known/access.log HTTP/1.1
(typically not a good idea to expose your log via the web server, but we’re ok here…)
implement as a virtual URI…
cf. RFC 5785
Content-type will be “text/plain”

10. gzip & tar % gunzip -c bucket/content/~a~a1-test.tar.gz | tar xvf -
a1-test/1/1.1/go hokies!.html
a1-test/1/1.2/
a1-test/1/1.2/arXiv.org.Idenitfy.repsonse.xml
a1-test/1/1.3/
a1-test/1/1.3/assignment1.ppt
a1-test/1/1.4/
a1-test/1/1.4/test:.html
a1-test/1/1.4/test:.HTM
a1-test/1/1.4/escape%this.html
a1-test/2/
a1-test/2/0.jpeg
a1-test/2/index.html
a1-test/2/6.gif
a1-test/3/
a1-test/4/
a1-test/4/thisfileisempty.txt
a1-test/4/directory3isempty