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Client Server and Protocols

Servers and Clients


A server is just a computer running a

piece of software that provides resources to clients A client is something that requests something from a server

Servers
Requests Www.nps.navy.mil

Responses
MyLaptop

Client/Server
The client machine requests something from

the server, in this case a web page. The server looks up the web page and returns it. Sometimes the server machine is dedicated to only that process, but most of the time it can also do other things You can run a web server on an NT or Unix box and also do other things with it.

Protocols
Requests are made to the server in a specific

format--a protocol. This is called an application-layer protocol. It runs on top of TCP/IP Its often just very simple text commands

HTTP Protocol
HTTP is a protocol for requesting web

pages from a server. Its just a series of text commands that is transmitted via TCP. Example: telnet <webserver> 80
This connects you to the web server software running on the destination machine. You can issue commands directly to the server software This is actually what your web browser is doing behind the scenes!

HTTP Protocol
pinafore 55# telnet azure 80 Trying 131.120.178.4... Connected to azure.stl.nps.navy.mil. Escape character is '^]'. GET /index.html <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC. <html> <head> <title>STL</title> </head>

Connecting to a port
The telnet 80 command tells the software

to directly connect to port 80 on the destination machine. By convention this is usually where http servers listen for requests. This allows us to pass commands directly to the server software Other servers listen on different ports

SMTP protocol
Kids, dont do this at home
You can also directly connect to SMTP mail

servers and issue commands to them You can send very bogus fake mail that wont fool anyone but a novice Some admins get very upset when people do things like this

SMTP
Telnet mailserver.nps.navy.mil 25 HELO pentagon.navy.mil MAIL FROM:admiral@pentagon.navy.mil RCPT TO:ensign@someship.mil DATA From: admiral@pentagon.navy.mil (The admiral in charge) To: ensign@someship.mil Subject: Next assignment Reply-To: admiral@pentagon.navy.mil Report immediately to Adak island. . QUIT

Protocols
SMTP has a simple command structure that

runs on top of TCP/IP You can hook up to the mail server software and issue it commands You probably shouldnt believe everything your read in your mailbox

FTP
File Transfer Protocol is used to move files

from one machine to another Youll often use this to transfer HTML files from your PC to an HTML server ws_ftp is one GUI ftp program; see web searches for others

Clients, Servers, and Protocols


Clients talk to servers to request data
They communicate using a protocol These are often very simple text commands

that you can simulate yourself

Web Servers
A web server can be almost any machine,

named anything. The thing that makes it a web server is a program running on that machine that understands the http protocol The machine can also run other things

Web Servers
There are many web server programs out

there
Commercial: Netscape Enterprise Server, Microsoft IIS Free: Apache

They can run on almost any OS Sun, Microsoft, Apple, Linux

Web Servers
They just accept requests and return data
Serious servers need to be well connected,

since they take up a lot of bandwidth Serious servers should also be secure

Servers

The Internet

Internal Network

Web Server

Firewall

Web Servers
Web servers are often kept outside the

firewall because theyre prone to subversion and attack. A compromised web server outside the firewall wont have really bad consequences for machines inside the firewall

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