Videos: More Networking

Our tour of networking continue with TCP and building a web server using HTTP over TCP.

The example implementations described in these videos are available as udp+tcp.zip and as the TINY web server code at tiny.tar.

• Network 14: TCP   4:02
  An introduction to TCP, listen, accept, and connect.

• Network 15: TCP lifecycle   2:59
  Putting the pieces together for a server and client TCP connections.

• Network 15: TCP basic example   3:57
  Example TCP server and client implementations.

• Network 16: TCP improved examples   3:46
  Improved TCP server and client protocols, so that a server reliably receives the intended data from a client.

• Network 17: Echo server   4:37
  Another TCP server example—line-by-line echo—and using telnet as a client.

• Network 18: HTTP and URLs   5:17
  An introduction to HTTP and information in a URL.

• Network 19: Encoding in URLs   1:16
  A breif note on encoding special characters in a URL.

• Network 20: HTTP client side   3:25
  The client side of the HTTP protocol in GET mode, and using the echo server to show a web browser’s request.

• Network 21: HTTP server side   3:07
  The server side of the HTTP protocol, and using telnet to view a web server’s response.

• Network 22: HTTP POST and headers   0.53
  About POST mode for clients and a summary of relevant header fields.

• Network 23: The TINY web server   3:35
  Description and demonstration of the TINY web server.

• Network 24: TINY web server implementation   4:10
  The TINY web server’s implementation.