Web Science/Part1: Foundations of the web/Dynamic Web Content

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Web Science/Part1: Foundations of the web/Dynamic Web Content

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Dynamic Web Content

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Basics of server side web programming

1. become aware of the possibilities to create dynamic content within a webserver
2. see that you don't have to implement a webserver to be able to serve dynamic content
3. understand some main issues like blocking I/O that one should keep in mind when doing server side programming
4. see how the web server is the entry point for web applications
5. whitelisting of input vs blacklisting and a method of preventing XSS

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Forms and HTTP post request

understand the basics of HTTP POST requests

become aware of security issues while transfering data to a web server

be able to create a simple web form in HTML

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Handling a post request in a Java Servlet

See how a POST request is handled in a Java Servlet

get to know the Request object

see how a data base query and more advanced technology can be included to a servlet

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Client side JavaScript

understand how javascript was supposed to support people to fill out web forms

understand the issues and disadvantages that arise with javascript

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Ajax and the XMLHttpRequest class

be aware of JavaScript APIs

know some of the standard JavaScript libraries

be able to understand the concept of Ajax requests.

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1. Ethernet
   1. Communication over a shared Medium
   2. Ethernet header
   3. Minimum package length vs maximum cable length
   4. Collision detection
   5. Summary, further reading, homework
2. Internet Protocol
   1. Motivation for IP
   2. Classful IPv4 networks
   3. IP forwarding algorithm
   4. IP header
   5. Summary, further reading, homework
3. Transmission Control Protocol
   1. End to end principle and connection oriented communication
   2. Three way handshake
   3. Port numbers
   4. Sliding window and flow control
   5. Summary, further reading, homework
4. Domain Name System
   1. Tree structure
   2. Terminology
   3. Zones
   4. Review some facts about DNS
   5. Delegating DNS queries
   6. DNS address resolution
   7. Summary, further reading, homework
5. Internet vs World Wide Web
   1. Summary of the internet architecture
   2. Motivation and requirements for the World Wide Web
   3. Design principles of the web
   4. Uniform Resource Identifier
   5. Summary, further reading, homework
6. Hypertext Transfer Protocol
   1. Making HTTP requests
   2. A simple web client
   3. A simple web server
   4. HTTP header
   5. Content negotiation
   6. Summary, further reading, homework
7. Web content
   1. Problem setting for web content formats
   2. Working with XML
   3. HTML for web document structures
   4. Layout elements in HTML
   5. Motivating separation of content and layout
   6. Cascading Style Sheets
   7. Media content
   8. Metadata
   9. Summary, further reading, homework
8. Dynamic Web Content
   1. Basics of server side web programming
   2. Forms and HTTP post request
   3. Handling a post request in a Java Servlet
   4. Client side JavaScript
   5. Ajax and the XMLHttpRequest class
   6. Summary, further reading, homework