Australian National University

Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

INFS2052 Internet and Intranet Information Systems

Syllabus 1999 - Modules and Lectures

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1. Introduction
• OSI layers - general model, functionality, characteristics
• characterisation of "open" systems
• network applications examples
• client/server paradigm: closed and open

3 lectures

1. administration, motivation, data networks

2. network applications examples, client/server

3. OSI layers, protocols, Internet applications protocols, non-layering

2. Access to remote information
• introduction - transport services, push vs pull
• http - embedded data formats
• browser/server/cache architecture and functions
• connection vs connectionless
• Internet network addressing and naming
• email, X.400 and embedded data formats
• Web access to non-Web information
• issues in representation, security, state

7 lectures, 2-3 labs

4. Introduction to HTML

lab 1. The HyperText Markup Language(HTML)

5. Browser-server interaction through HTML (1)

6. Browser-server interaction through HTML (2)

7. Web server performance, browser state, proxies and caching

lab 2.HTTP, the browser and the server

8. (guest lecture by Dr Roger Clarke) Achieving business payback from open Internet capabilities

9. connections and connectionless working, request pipelining in HTTP

10. email and embedded data formats

lab 3. Tutorial: embedded data formats - content types, transfer encoding

3. Network security
• attacks and vulnerabilities of networked systems
• data security - encryption, key protocols, document signatures
• access security - firewalls, ? Kerberos

4 lectures, 1 lab

11. introduction to WWW security

12. network security and encryption

13. Public keys and digital signatures

14. Security in Network Applications

lab 4. Tutorial: encryption, public and private keys

4. Mobile code and active content
• active content: scripts, applets
• brief introduction to Java language
• applications of mobile code - applets, servlets, perhaps aglets
• security issues
• examples in presentation, active forms

3 lectures, 1 lab

15. Active Web pages - Java technology

16. Java technology and security

17. Other technologies for active content

lab 5. Tutorial: active Web page technology and application design

5. Openness and standards
• importance of standards
• open and proprietary standards
• standardisation processes

1 lecture

18. Standards and Open Systems: Internet, ISO, proprietary. Intro to techno-politics.

6. Final summary/wrap-up

1 lecture

19. Summary and wrap up, exam hints, including some discussion of the examination questions.

Last modified: Tue Feb 23 16:47:24 EST 1999