WWW- Extra Credit

As promised I will be giving assignments for extra credit – BUT – you have got to work for it!!

Each question on this Extra Credit Assignment is worth 1 pt extra on any of your grades.
This means you have a chance to add 15% to you grade. It’s your choice. If you want it you got it. If you need.. it take it!! The choice is yours.

This is Due next Friday. March 12th 2010


Based on Chapter 1

1. What protocol is used by the majority of computer connections to the Internet?
2. What is the form of an IP address?
3. Describe a fully qualified domain name.
4. What is the document root of a Web server?
5. What is a virtual host?
6. What is the task of a DNS name server?
7. What is hypertext?
8. What is the purpose of a MIME type specification in a response from a server?
9. What must a Web server furnish the browser when it returns a document with an experimental MIME type?
10. What is the purpose of the Accept field in an HTTP request?
11. What field is required in an HTTP response?
12. What problem is addressed by using a public key approach to encryption, relative to earlier encryption methods?
13. Is it practically possible to compute the private key associated with a given public key?
14. What is the difference between a virus and a worm?
15. What aspect of this chapter do you feel is most interesting, explain.