NetA2008 references

This directory will just contain pages that it seems you will need, or general references for the course. Things will be added here on a random basis.

Obtaining access to the machine shadow0

which is the machine you will use for special access to obtain network dumps. We do not want students generally accessing the network that everyone uses, so this confines what you can capture to whatever is available on the network 134.48.13.0 which is allocated only for the use of networking classes.

RFCs

Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0 (RFC1945)

which is an Informational Standard, posted in May 1996. It was eventually followed by more formal standards.

W3C

Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0

which is an Internet Draft which expired August 19, 1996.

Discussion

Key Differences between HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/ HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 by Balachander Krishnamurthy, Jeffrey C. Mogul, David M. Kristol.

explains and discusses the differences.

JavaMail API documentation

JavaMail APIDesign Reference Specification

the GMime suite of Core utilities for parsing MIME

PHP HTTP POST Incorrect MIME Header Parsing Vulnerability

a typical security problem caused by incorrect parsing of MIME headers.