Web Server Info

[spudd2k]

Hi Folks!

Been working on a College project recently which involves finding out about the "Inner Workings" of various types of internet server; namely Email, http, ftp and news.
At this time I've been able to locate nothin' whatsoever! If anyone can point me towards any web sites on the subject or assist in any way it would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers!

Spudd :-)

[CujoRbd]

if one of the things that you may mean by "inner workings" is HTML, then just go here (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerPrintable.html) and you can learn how it works.... also, if i find any more info relating to this, i will let you know...


anywayz...

[SysOpt]

Inner workings? Such as? Hardware? Software (apache, SunOS, FreeBSD, etc.)?

[Dominus]

If you want inner-workings overkill, grab the source code of the worlds most popular webserver here (http://www.apache.org).

[spudd2k]

Had a chat to my lecturer, and he seems to want info more on the software side of things(port numbers, user authentication, what commands are used to do what, etc..) Hardware & config's not much of a problem as we've got a Linux (Redhat 6.0) server up running using the included server softs, just that the 'techie documentation' included with 'em is non-existent!

Spudd :-)

P.S I had alook at the apache source code Dominus, and almost fainted! (We've only covered basic C programming so far!)