COSC 540/436  Assignment 01 / 24 / 2017

Distributed 1/24/2017
Due: 1/26/2017

(1) Find any amazon affiliate. Click on a click or enter search string as appropriate.
Identify all parts of the URL (especially notice the tag=)

(2) Can the web clients in 520 PH be used with the sftp protocol? Try to download
a file from your own web space.

(3) In amazon, enter search string "haskell". Identify all parts of the URL.

(4) To emich.edu/calendar, enter the search string "final exam". 
What is the http response?  (I.e., the status)

(5) To google.com and to bing.com, enter the search string "queen elizabeth".
Identify the parts of the URL.  
Give a hypothesis as to why there is a difference.

(6) Open google.com with the Web Developer console open so that you can see the
traffic. 
Now enter a search string to google (not "queen elizabeth"). Identify the most
time consuming messages.

(7) Open emich.edu/compsci/tutoring.php.  Can you identify in the source code
(the tutoring.php file) where the 404 error originates?

(8) Make a SIMPLE html page with one image.
Observe the network traffic.
Observe the HEADERS, RESPONSE, and TIMING tab results. 
From EACH of the tabs, make TWO intelligent statements about what can be learned
from the data.