Monday
9:00
Meeting and greeting then...
Background to the module and a little Web history
An introduction to the module, its teaching and its assessment, a little Web history, the roles of a webmaster
10.30
11:00
.net
By David Coutinho
An overview of Microsoft's .net technology and issues such as clustering in Microsoft servers
12:00
1:00
The HTTP protocol
Technical overview of the HTTP protocol.
2:45
3:15
HTTP hacking
HTTP tutorial, creating and observing raw HTTP headers and data.
Source code for those who are interested
Tuesday
9:00
The management and configuration of Web servers
The basics of running a webserver
10.30
11:00
Configuring Apache
12.30
1.30
Configuring HTTP Authentication
Setting up basic authentication
3:00
3:30
Web services
A brief summary of SOAP, WSDL and UDDI
Wednesday
9:00
RDF and the Semantic Web
by Goran Soldar
10.30
11:00
Monitoring Web servers and improving performance
12:30
1:30
Load balancing
3:00
3:30
Monitoring tools and log file analysis
Tutorial: using webserver log files
Thursday
9:00
Your own presentations part one
10.30
11:00
Web applications - CGI, PHP, ASP, JSP etc
Server-side Web applications
12:00
Security
General security issues: potential threats, some responses, SSL
1.00
2:00
Setting up an SSL server
Tutorial: making a secure server
3:00
3.30
Web application security
Friday
9:00
Web application security
Hacking a web application
How web applications are cracked
Tutorial: getting into a poorly written application
10.30 or 11
11:00 or 11:30
Your own presentations part 2
12.30 or 1
1.30 or 2
Finishing presentations and/or
Intranet concerns or
Multimedia
A consideration of some higher level management concerns
Some information about multimedia issues. Note: probably a digested/trimmed version
3 or 3:30
3:30 or 4
Coursework preparation
Confirming topics, discussing approaches