DYNAMIC HTTP WEB SERVER

The very word internet reminds us of a browser through which we could login to
various HTTP sites.But very little is known as to how these servers work.

In this project, an attempt has been made to explain ,in a simplified manner, as to how a client program communicates with the server and vice- versa. We have used C-CGI interface with the server.This simplifies the overall idea of the working of HTTP servers in general.Below is a brief preview of the project.

• The server program uses winsock functions for Internet related operations.
  (i.e. TCP/IP,SMTP,HTTP).
  
• When the server program is run then it becomes ready to accept client
  requests (e.g. from a browser)
  
• The client requests along with the URL are passed to the server
  which the server parses accordingly and sends the client the
  requested form.(e.g. GET / HTTP/1.0) This means that the client has
  requested for default.htm,in our case "welcome.htm".
  
• These HTML pages are dynamically generated using user defined classes.
  
• The client can then send a query for a particular item which is in the
  database of the server .
  
• The HTML pages are dynamically updated referring to the databases using
  ODBC(2.0).
  
• Also embedded in this program is a E-Mail class which uses SMTP protocol.
  

The above project is a joint effort of the following :

Santosh Nagre
Satish Prabhu
Nagraj Rao
Ashok Gabani
Viral Desai
Amit Bhutra
Murtaza Udaipurwala
Palathuruthil Varghese Babu
Kutbuddin Wangrelwala
Shailesh Sharma
Laxmikant Kulkarni
Biren Patel

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We thank Mr. Vijay Mukhi and Sonal Kotecha for helping us in the completion of the project.

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