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Review chapter 1 of K&R Do homework 1 for Wednesday: Problems #3-5,11,16,18-20 Half of the problems will be graded. Feel free to try out review questions, unassigned problems, and discussion questions. (hint, hint) Read chapter 2 of K&R Get book fixes from book website.
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Review chapter 1 of K&R Do homework 1 for Wednesday: Problems #3-5,11,16,18-20 Half of the problems will be graded. Feel free to try out review questions, unassigned problems, and discussion questions. (hint, hint) Read chapter 2 of K&R Get book fixes from book website What you should be doing 2: Application Layer
ping: tests connectivity and presence of target host when repeated, can help measure network latencies and packet loss some hosts/networks will prevent pings (e.g., Lehigh) from UNIX or DOS: ping www.mit.edu traceroute: shows the series of routers through which data will travel between two hosts. some network firewalls do not show full data (e.g., Rutgers) try from Linux or DOS (tracert) /usr/sbin/traceroute www.ibm.com tracert www.ibm.com Network utilities 2: Application Layer
Our goals: conceptual, implementation aspects of network application protocols transport-layer service models client-server paradigm peer-to-peer paradigm learn about protocols by examining popular application-level protocols HTTP FTP SMTP / POP3 / IMAP DNS programming network applications socket API Chapter 2: Application Layer 2: Application Layer
2.1 Principles of app layer protocols 2.2 Web and HTTP 2.3 FTP 2.4 Electronic Mail SMTP, POP3, IMAP 2.5 DNS 2.6 Socket programming with TCP 2.7 Socket programming with UDP 2.8 Building a Web server 2.9 Content distribution Network Web caching Content distribution networks P2P file sharing Chapter 2 outline 2: Application Layer
Process: program running within a host. within same host, two processes communicate using interprocess communication (defined by OS). processes running in different hosts communicate with an application-layer protocol user agent: interfaces with user “above” and network “below”. implements user interface & application-level protocol Web: browser E-mail: mail reader streaming audio/video: media player Network applications: some jargon 2: Application Layer
Application: communicating, distributed processes e.g., e-mail, Web, P2P file sharing, instant messaging running in end systems (hosts) exchange messages to implement application Application-layer protocols one “piece” of an app define messages exchanged by apps and actions taken use communication services provided by lower layer protocols (TCP, UDP) application transport network data link physical application transport network data link physical application transport network data link physical Applications and application-layer protocols 2: Application Layer
Types of messages exchanged, e.g., request & response messages Syntax of message types: what fields in messages & how fields are delineated Semantics of the fields, i.e., meaning of information in fields Rules for when and how processes send & respond to messages Public-domain protocols: defined in RFCs allows for interoperability eg, HTTP, SMTP Proprietary protocols: eg, KaZaA App-layer protocol defines 2: Application Layer
Typical network app has two pieces: client and server request reply application transport network data link physical application transport network data link physical Client-server paradigm Client: • initiates contact with server (“speaks first”) • typically requests service from server, • Web: client implemented in browser; e-mail: in mail reader Server: • provides requested service to client • e.g., Web server sends requested Web page, mail server delivers e-mail 2: Application Layer
host or server host or server process process socket socket TCP with buffers, variables TCP with buffers, variables Processes communicating across network • process sends/receives messages to/from its socket • socket analogous to door • sending process shoves message out door • sending process assumes transport infrastructure on other side of door which brings message to socket at receiving process controlled by app developer Internet controlled by OS • API: (1) choice of transport protocol; (2) ability to fix a few parameters (lots more on this later) 2: Application Layer
For a process to receive messages, it must have an identifier Every host has a unique 32-bit IP address Q: does the IP address of the host on which the process runs suffice for identifying the process? Answer: No, many processes can be running on same host Identifier includes both the IP address and port numbers associated with the process on the host. Example port numbers: HTTP server: 80 Mail server: 25 More on this later Addressing processes: 2: Application Layer
Data loss some apps (e.g., audio) can tolerate some loss other apps (e.g., file transfer, telnet) require 100% reliable data transfer Timing some apps (e.g., Internet telephony, interactive games) require low delay to be “effective” What transport service does an app need? Bandwidth • some apps (e.g., multimedia) require a minimum amount of bandwidth to be “effective” • other apps (“elastic apps”) make use of whatever bandwidth they get 2: Application Layer
Transport service requirements of common apps Time Sensitive no no no yes, 100’s ms yes, few secs yes, 100’s ms yes and no Application file transfer e-mail Web documents real-time audio/video stored audio/video interactive games instant messaging Bandwidth elastic elastic elastic audio: 5kbps-1Mbps video:10kbps-5Mbps same as above few kbps up elastic Data loss no loss no loss no loss loss-tolerant loss-tolerant loss-tolerant no loss 2: Application Layer
TCP service: connection-oriented: setup required between client and server processes reliable transport between sending and receiving process flow control: sender won’t overwhelm receiver congestion control: throttle sender when network overloaded does not provide: timing, minimum bandwidth guarantees UDP service: unreliable data transfer between sending and receiving process does not provide: connection setup, reliability, flow control, congestion control, timing, or bandwidth guarantee Q: why bother? Why is there a UDP? Internet transport protocols services 2: Application Layer
Internet apps: application, transport protocols Application layer protocol SMTP [RFC 2821] Telnet [RFC 854] HTTP [RFC 2616] FTP [RFC 959] proprietary (e.g. RealNetworks) proprietary (e.g., Dialpad) Underlying transport protocol TCP TCP TCP TCP TCP or UDP typically UDP Application e-mail remote terminal access Web file transfer streaming multimedia Internet telephony 2: Application Layer
2.1 Principles of app layer protocols 2.2 Web and HTTP 2.3 FTP 2.4 Electronic Mail SMTP, POP3, IMAP 2.5 DNS 2.6 Socket programming with TCP 2.7 Socket programming with UDP 2.8 Building a Web server 2.9 Content distribution Network Web caching Content distribution networks P2P file sharing Chapter 2 outline 2: Application Layer
http://www.someschool.edu/someDept/pic.gif path name method host name Web and HTTP First some jargon • Web page consists of objects • Object can be HTML file, JPEG image, Java applet, audio file,… • Web page consists of base HTML-file which includes several referenced objects • Each object is addressable by a URL • Example URL: 2: Application Layer
HTTP: hypertext transfer protocol Web’s application layer protocol client/server model client: browser that requests, receives, “displays” Web objects server: Web server sends objects in response to requests HTTP/1.0: RFC 1945 HTTP/1.1: RFC 2616 HTTP overview HTTP request PC running Explorer HTTP response HTTP request Server running Apache Web server HTTP response Mac running Navigator 2: Application Layer
Uses TCP: client initiates TCP connection (creates socket) to server, port 80 server accepts TCP connection from client HTTP messages (application-layer protocol messages) exchanged between browser (HTTP client) and Web server (HTTP server) TCP connection closed HTTP is “stateless” server maintains no information about past client requests HTTP overview (continued) aside Protocols that maintain “state” are complex! • past history (state) must be maintained • if server/client crashes, their views of “state” may be inconsistent, must be reconciled 2: Application Layer
Nonpersistent HTTP At most one object is sent over a TCP connection. HTTP/1.0 uses nonpersistent HTTP Persistent HTTP Multiple objects can be sent over single TCP connection between client and server. HTTP/1.1 uses persistent connections in default mode. HTTP connections 2: Application Layer
Suppose user enters URL www.someSchool.edu/someDepartment/home.index 1a. HTTP client initiates TCP connection to HTTP server (process) at www.someSchool.edu on port 80 Nonpersistent HTTP (contains text, references to 10 jpeg images) 1b. HTTP server at host www.someSchool.edu waiting for TCP connection at port 80. “accepts” connection, notifying client. 2. HTTP client sends HTTP request message (containing URL) into TCP connection socket. Message indicates that client wants object someDepartment/home.index 3. HTTP server receives request message, forms response message containing requested object, and sends message into its socket. time 2: Application Layer
5. HTTP client receives response message containing html file, displays html. Parsing html file, finds 10 referenced jpeg objects Nonpersistent HTTP (cont.) 4. HTTP server closes TCP connection. time 6.Steps 1-5 repeated for each of 10 jpeg objects 2: Application Layer
initiate TCP connection RTT request file time to transmit file RTT file received time time Response time modeling Definition of RTT: time to send a small packet to travel from client to server and back. Response time: • one RTT to initiate TCP connection • one RTT for HTTP request and first few bytes of HTTP response to return • file transmission time total = 2RTT+transmit time 2: Application Layer
Nonpersistent HTTP issues: requires 2 RTTs per object OS must work and allocate host resources for each TCP connection but browsers often open parallel TCP connections to fetch referenced objects Persistent HTTP server leaves connection open after sending response subsequent HTTP messages between same client/server are sent over connection Persistent without pipelining: client issues new request only when previous response has been received one RTT for each referenced object Persistent with pipelining: default in HTTP/1.1 client sends requests as soon as it encounters a referenced object as little as one RTT for all the referenced objects Persistent HTTP 2: Application Layer
HTTP request message • two types of HTTP messages: request, response • HTTP request message: • ASCII (human-readable format) request line (GET, POST, HEAD commands) GET /somedir/page.html HTTP/1.1 Host: www.someschool.edu User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 Connection: close Accept-language:fr (extra carriage return, line feed) header lines Carriage return, line feed indicates end of message 2: Application Layer
HTTP request message: general format 2: Application Layer
POST method: Web page often includes form input Input is uploaded to server in entity body URL method: Uses GET method Input is uploaded in URL field of request line: Uploading form input http://www.somesite.com/animalsearch?monkeys&banana Similar to choosing between standard input or command-line parameters for input. 2: Application Layer
HTTP/1.0 GET POST HEAD asks server to leave requested object out of response HTTP/1.1 GET, POST, HEAD PUT uploads file in entity body to path specified in URL field DELETE deletes file specified in the URL field (and more) Method types 2: Application Layer
HTTP response message status line (protocol status code status phrase) HTTP/1.1 200 OK Connection close Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 12:00:15 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.0 (Unix) Last-Modified: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 … Content-Length: 6821 Content-Type: text/html data data data data data … header lines data, e.g., requested HTML file 2: Application Layer
200 OK request succeeded, requested object later in this message 301 Moved Permanently requested object moved, new location specified later in this message (Location:) 400 Bad Request request message not understood by server 404 Not Found requested document not found on this server 505 HTTP Version Not Supported HTTP response status codes In first line in server->client response message. A few sample codes: 2: Application Layer
See headers online: http://www.web-caching.com/showheaders.html Try http://www.lehigh.edu/ http://www.microsoft.com/ Others Access via telnet (next slide) Digression on terminal types, DISPLAY environment variable, telnet clients, telnet vs. ssh HTTP Headers 2: Application Layer