INFS2052 Resources Bookshelf

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Recommended texts

• Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 3rd edition, Prentice-Hall 1996, ISBN 0-13-349945-6. A set of postscript versions of each chapter's figures is available.
• Simson Garfinkel with Gene Spafford, Web Security & Commerce, O'Reilly 1997, ISBN 1-56592-269-7.
• William Stallings, Data and Computer Communications, 5th edition, Prentice-Hall 1997, ISBN 0-13-571274-2.
• Douglas E. Comer, Computer Networks and Internets, Prentice-Hall 1996, ISBN 0-13-599010-6. There is a Web site with supplementary material.

Introduction, protocols, networks, applications

INFS2052 unit information page
Tanenbaum sections 1.0-1.5
McKeown chapter 1
Comer chapter 12

Access to remote information

HTML basics

McKeown chapter 2
NCSA HTML primer - a good starting point
Tutorials and references on writing HTML (DCS)
Basic HTML markup
Including graphics in HTML
Converting RTF to HTML
HTML Style Guide
HyperText Markup Language (HTML): Working and Background Materials from W3C
Tanenbaum section 7.6
Umar section 4.1-4.5
Comer chapter 27
Standard description of URLs

HTTP and further HTML

The HTTP 1.0 protocol specification - HTTP/1.0 (rfc 1945)
The new HTTP 1.1 protocol specification - HTTP/1.1 (rfc 2068)
Source documents and issues about the HTTP protocol
HTML 3.2 specification
Extensions to HTML
Jan Newmarch's August 1997 paper on Recent and forthcoming developments on the Web

Dynamic documents and access beyond the Web

WDB - A Web interface to SQL Databases
Dynamic documents, CGI Comer chapter 28
McKeown chapter 6

Mobile code and active content

Tanenbaum section 7.6.4
Umar section 4.1-4.5
The Feel of Java 1997 paper by James Gosling
Making Sense of Java by Hank Shiffman of SGI (not Sun).

Network security

Netscape's FAQs on cookies
The Cookie Specification
RFC 2109 - Cookies
Computers and Internet:Security and Encryption:PGP - Pretty Good Privacy(Yahoo)
EFH Pretty Good Privacy Workshop
Cryptography, PGP and your privacy - technical references and a political position.
A number of Web security issues are explored and explained by Netscape's technical documentation docs, particularly the Secure Socket Layer overview

Openness and standards

Computers and Internet:Standards (Yahoo)
Internet Request For Comments (RFC) index

Multi-topics

ISWorld Net Home Page
E-Commerce for the 21st Century

Assignments and laboratory

McKeown chapter 3
McKeown chapter 4, 5
ANU Web Developers' Page
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue
Gabriel's HTML Editor List

ANU environment

Welcome to ANU Online
CSSA WWW Home Page
ANU Department of Computer Science

Ramesh Sanaranarayana, Dept of Computer Science, ANU