From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 18:21: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ifour.com.br (unknown [200.236.148.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 115C537B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 18:20:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 28087 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2000 23:26:34 -0000 Received: from port29.tdnet.com.br (HELO ifour.com.br) (200.236.148.129) by midas.ifour.com.br with SMTP; 1 Dec 2000 23:26:34 -0000 Message-ID: <3A284031.CD0A4F2F@ifour.com.br> Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 00:20:01 +0000 From: Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: web monitoring system References: <3A282EC8.65821F84@ifour.com.br> <00120202431504.04232@buffy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > Mmmm. > This is a fairly ambitious project :) > Some questions: > 1 - Can you already program in "C" or "perl", these are the two best > choices (wait for contrary opinions !) for network programming. > 2 - Do you know what sockets are ? 1) I can code in C! I only code in C! I known nothing about perl. 2) I known nothing about sockets! > If yes and yes. I would if I were you start off by writing some > simple socket programs. This will give you a good appreciation of > TCP/IP issues (and is very satsifying). > Write a simple client/server program pair that will copy files > from one system to another, that's a good exercise. i took down your suggestion! > Remember RFC are semi-formal protocol specifications, they don;t write > the code ! Yeah! I known, But i believe it will be necessary to read some RFC! I have doubts like: How the web server detects it is receving a data from a form ? May you point me some source of information! > The very best book on this kind of thing is Unix Network Programming, by ..?? > Cannot remember his name. It used to be in 1 edition, now it is in 2 I > believe. It is INCREDIBLY expensive (at least in Holland where I live). But > it is just about all you will ever need to know, and is real world stuff. I will buy it! Any other suggestion? > Good Luck. > Post your progress :) I will, as soon as i can! > Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message