General Information for COP 3832

• Exam Info
  • Midterm
    • Sections that are covered on the test
  • Final
    • The final exam will be on Wednesday, 4/19 at 12:30 pm.
    • Sections that are covered on the test
• Assignments will be posted here
  • Submitting Homework Online from weasel, mongoose or solix
  • Submitting homework on-line via the Web
  • Assignment 1.
    • Due to the holiday on 1/17, I have changed the due date of the assignment to 1/26.
    • Option 4 of the menu should display EVEN numbers above the average.
    • Do not use recursion for this program.
    • Read a character to pause.
    • Do not bother about centering the text, nor clearing the screen.
    • Run an example of the homework assignment.
    • In the assignment, 'print' means 'display on the screen'. Do not send any program output to the printer.
  • Assignment 2
  • Assignment 3
    • To make simple indexing the default for directory listings, comment out the FancyIndexing On directive in srm.conf.
    • The Options directive in srm.conf should be Options All
    • The Options directive in the <Directory> section for the document root should be Options Indexes
    • I will discuss how to change icons on Monday. If you want to explore on your own, check out the AddIcon directive.
    • I will discuss Fancy Indexing on Monday. If you want to explore on your own, check out the IndexOptions directive.
    • In order for the server to execute scripts, like hello.cgi, they must have world read and execute permission.
  • Assignment 4
  • Assignment 5
    • Making forms sticky
    • As I warned earlier in the semester, it is dangerous to use a Windows' word processor to save scripts to the U: drive. Windows adds extra control characters to each line that prevent the script from running. I have a script that will remove the extra control characters. Replace 'your.script' with the name of the script to modify. A script named newyour.script will be created that will have the extra control characeters removed.
      ~downeyt/cs/public/bin/fixm.pl  your.script
  • Assignment 6
    • If you add the name="picture" attribute to the image tag in your document, then you can access the image as
      • document.images.picture
      • document.picture
      • If it is part of a form named myForm
document.myForm.picture
    • I may have put an incorrect reference on the board. When getting the value of option number 1 in a selection list named color in a form named myForm, use  
      document.myForm.color.options[1].value
    • To access the only link on your page, use the reference
      document.links[0]
    • If you think that JavaScript is ignoring statements, then it probably is. When javaScript encounters an error, it terminates the function at the point of the error. All statements after the error will not be executed. To check if you have any errors after you have tried some action on your pgae, type javascript: into the location window and press ENTER.
• HTML Information
  • Creating a Web Directory on Mongoose
  • Creating a Web Directory on Solix
  • Problem with the <P align= ...> tag
  • HTML codes for a basic web page
  • Netscape Gold HTML Editor
  • Experiment with colors
• Server Information
  • Requesting a port number
  • Setting up your server on mongoose
  • Starting, Restarting, and Stopping your server
  • I have a server running that has a lot of files.
    • http://mongoose.aul.fiu.edu:12345
    • The log files are accessible in http://mongoose.aul.fiu.edu:12345/logs
• Examples of Server options
  • Language Negotiation
  • Language Negotiation Off
  • Content Negotiation
  • Content Negotiation Off
  • AddHandler
  • AddHandler Off
  • Timeout 15
• Server Side Include (SSI) Information
  • Examples of SSI commands. Notice how long it takles this file to load compared to the next two links.
  • Same file with a .html extension instead of .shtml. Notice that none of the commands were executed.
  • Same file with a .txt extension. Notice how the server decides on what to send the browser by looking at the extension.
• Miscellaneous scripts
  • Find your current IP address
  • Look up the IP address for a domain name
  • Trace the route to a domain
  • See what the form elements look like
• PERL Script Information.
  • There is a directory named scripts in my ~downeyt home directory. You have access to it, just set up a ScriptAlias in your server to /home/scsfac/downeyt/scripts/, or use my server to access it.
  • Here is a directory named scripts-source on my server. You may either view a script or execute it from this page.
  • This is a page with links to some of the scripts-source scripts and their sources.
  • This is an information page for the topics of cookies, server push, browers pull, and file uploads. This information can all fit into one category: modifying the headers that the server and browser send.
  • Some PERL info: split, join, and pattern matching
  • CGI.pm Information
• JavaScript Information
  • This is a directory for all the scripts from chapter 10 of the text.
  • JavaScript Examples and Information
• General Stuff
  • Syllabus
  • Requesting a PPP account
• Information related to accessing school resources
  • Creating a Web directory on solix
  • Information on the pine e-mail program
  • School Accounts
  • Connecting to the school from home
  • How to FTP to solix
  • Newsgroup and Mail Information
• General Web Information
  • Search Engines
  • Internet Service Providers

School Accounts

Getting a school account

As long as you are a registered student, you can have an account to use the school's computers. This account is not needed to use the PCs in the computer labs, but it is needed to long onto the computers with names: solix, serss1, xlab1, servax, servms. The account that you get will give you access to all of these computers.

To get the account, you must connect to the solix computer. When you are prompted for a user name, type the single word (no spaces) newstudent. You will then be asked some information like name and student number. Then you will be given a user name and a password. Write them down! Then you will be logged off the computer. You won't be able to access the computers for another 24 hours, while your account is being activated.

In the future, you will use your user name and password to log onto any of the named computers.

Changing Passwords

Once you have a school account, it is good for many computers here at FIU. You should change your password to something other than your student number.

Changing your password on solix

From the command prompt on serss1 and solix, issue the command

        passwd

in order to change your password. You will be asked for three things:

• Your current password
• Your new password
• Your new password, again

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FAQ: Why won't the <P align="..."> tag work?

Many people are having difficulty getting the <P align="right"> working. The problem is with the header tags that start the paragraphs: Do not include the header tags inside the paragraph. Do it this way

<h1>Heading</h1>
<P align="right">
Paragraph
</P>

This will get it working. The same applies for "left" and "center".

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Submitting Homework Online from mongoose or solix

I have created a script that you can call from school computers to upload files to my directory. Execute the following from your directory on weasel, mongoose or solix:

From weasel or mongoose:

~downeyt/cshome/public/webftp/webftp.pl

From solix:

~downeyt/public/webftp/webftp.pl

and follow the instructions.

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