Mid Term Topics

These are the topics that I covered in the first half of the semester.

Perl

• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4

Html - Chapter 5

• Standard Codes - html, head, body, title
• Headings - 6 different kinds
• Lists - ordered, unordered, definition
• Alignment
• Paragraphs, line breaks and horizontal rules
• Links
• Images
• Tables
  • rowspan and colspan
  • bgcolor
  • cell alignment
• Frames
  • predefined frames
    • _top
    • _parent
    • _self
    • _blank
  • frameset
    • rows
    • cols
  • noframe
  • frame
    • scrolling
    • noresize
    • name
• URLs - relative and absolute

Server

• Chapter 2
  • ipaddress
  • domain names
  • clients and servers
  • ports and default port numbers for protocols
  • Running a server as a Daemon or as inetd
  • URLs - relative and absolute (partial and complete)
  • MIME typing system
    • How does the browser use mime types
    • How does the server use mime types
  • Phases of the HTTP protocol
    • request header
    • request data
    • status codes
    • response headers
    • response data
• Chapter 3
  • Virtual Document tree
    • Document Root
    • Server Root
      • httpd.conf
      • srm.conf
      • access.conf
    • User-supported directories
  • Negotiation
    • Allowing negotiation
    • Content Negotiation
    • Language Negotiation
  • Keep-alive connections
  • Managing the server
    • Starting the server (without my script)
    • Stopping the server (without my script)
    • Restarting the server (without my script)
  • Server Type
    • standalone
    • inetd
  • Spare Servers
    • Min
    • Max
    • Start
  • Specific Directives
    • Port
    • ServerType
    • ServerRoot
    • KeepAlive
    • KeepAliveTimeout
    • MinSpareServers
    • MaxSpareServers
    • StartServers
    • DocumentRoot
    • AddLanguage
    • LanguagePriority
    • AccessFileName
    • UserDir
    • DirectoryIndex
    • Options - Multiviews
    • Limit
      • order
      • allow from
      • deny from

Cascading Style Sheets

• Link tag
• Style tag
• Defining styles for standard tags
  • P { .... }
  • Body { .... }
  • A.link { .... }
  • A:visited { .... }
• Defining a new style
  • P.red { .... }
  • .blue { .... }
• Referencing a new style: class="red"
• Attributes
  • color: red;
  • background-color: blue;
  • font: Courier;
  • font-family: Courier, monospaced;
  • font-size: 12pt;
  • font-weight: bold;
  • text-decoration: underline;
  • text-transform: uppercase;