The Application Layer 2 -- HTTP and Ping Applications

Learning Goals

Goals for this week's lab

• Implement a simple web server application that can respond to HTTP requests by retrieving and sending files from the server's file system.
• Implement a simple UDP pinger client, which will interact with the server and provide statistics for said communication, such as minimum, maximum, and average RTT.
• Study the effects of packet loss.

The preparation material for this week's lab can be found on Canvas.