CS 562: Assignment One

First Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to get you up to speed with using basic tools of the Web: HTML and HTTP. We will use all of these skills repeatedly throughout the semester. If you're already experienced with the Web this should take about 10 minutes.

Please perform the following tasks:

Send me email with your email address so that I can create a mailing list for the class.

Access Web pages via HTTP -- Use the telnet program to connect to a Web server (e.g., www.dre.vanderbilt.edu) at the HTTP port (port 80). One you are connected, download the DOC group's welcome page, as follows:

% telnet www.dre.vanderbilt.edu 80
Trying 129.59.129.40...
Connected to www.dre.vanderbilt.edu.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /

(lots of HTML omitted)

Then, download my home page, as follows:

% telnet www.dre.vanderbilt.edu 80
Trying 129.59.129.40...
Connected to www.dre.vanderbilt.edu.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /~schmidt/index.html HTTP/1.0

(lots of HTML omitted)

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