Things you should know for the final

Server Information

• AddHandler cgi-script .cgi-extension
• ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /path/to/cgi-bin/

Basic HTML tags

• html, head, title, body
• headings
• ordered and unordered lists
• paragraphs and alignment
• links

FORM tags

• action, method
• text, hidden, password, textarea
• submit, reset, image
• select, radio, checkbox

Gateways

• What is a gateway?
• Know what SWISH does. Is it a gateway?
• Know what wwwwais does. is it a gateway?
• Know what MailMerge does. Is it a gateway?

PERL scripting

• Why are some scripts unsafe? What is perl -T all about?
• be able to write scripts: perform operation on server; display different pages depending on input
• how do you know if the script is being called the first time
• query string: know what it looks like for a GET, and for an ISINDEX
• get, post, isindex
• making forms sticky
• generating different pages based on input or a calculation
• displaying name/value pairs using parse-lib.pl
• file access: basic read and write, and know what Any_DBMfile can do
• other scripts: mailmerge, CGI.pm, SWISH, MailMerge, wwwwais. Know what they can do.
• nph-push. How does it work. Know the details, not the syntax. Why is it used? Explain the boundary.
• multipart/x-mixed-replace. How does it work? Know the details, not the syntax. Why is it used? Explain the boundary.
• pull. How does it work? What is different about the response header? Know the syntax.
• cgiwrap. Know how to call a script using cgiwrap. Where does the script need to be on mongoose? Why is cgiwrap needed?
• cookies. What are they? How can they be controlled? Know how to set them. Know how to access them using parse-lib.pl

JavaScript

• create a new window
• alert, open, close, setTimeout, clearTimeout
• form: name, validate before submitting
• events: onClick, onSubmit, onChange, onFocus, onBlur, onMouseOver

Java

• applet tag
• code field
• codebase field
• width and height