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Assignment 2: |
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Early and Often |
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Work on the project that you came up with in class |
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Check in your progress every day (Subversion is your friend) |
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Check in early |
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Check in often |
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Surprise me! |
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Assignment 7: |
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HTTP Client |
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Write a simple HTTP 1.1 client program thingy |
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It should comply with the spec (you can find it on your own) |
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It should at least support the HEAD and GET methods |
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It should take command line arguments including a URL and other |
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options |
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It should provide usage information when it is given invalid options, |
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a help option, or no arguments |
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It must work on at least FreeBSD and Linux |
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It must not use any HTTP or URL library thingy, unless you wrote it |
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Other options should include what to do with a downloaded file (e.g. |
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display it on standard out or put it in a file), whether to |
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display info from the headers, and anything else you think of |
