Web (HTTP) Servers.pptVIP

Web (HTTP) Servers Zachary G. Ives University of Pennsylvania CIS 455 / 555 – Internet and Web Systems January 25, 2010 * Today Web (HTTP) servers Upcoming: Data on the Web HTML, XML, JPEG, MP3, … Please read chapter on XML, for review * Designing Servers (Review) Major issues: Concurrency Statefulness and sessions Are requests self-contained, or do they require the server to keep around state? Communication and consistency What state is shared across requests? Do all requests need the same view? … And, of course, security!!! * Recall Our Toy Example Suppose we want to build an “arithmeti