Your assignment is to write a CGI based Email Address Book (basically just a list of names and corresponding email addresses). Your system must include the following:
mailto: hyperlink).
A sample system is available at http://monte.cs.rpi.edu/~hollingd/netprog/hw4/
Don't reproduce the demo! Make your own forms, come up with your own format for showing a list of addresses, etc.
Feel free to write your CGI program in C, C++ or Perl. You need to ask about using any other scripting language...
cgi.cs.rpi.edu. Please remember that this machine is a
Sun, so any programs you want to run there must be Sun executable (or
Perl).Your submission must include all the source code for your system and a URL where we can test your system. It is important that the source code you submit is the actual code running at the URL you send us!
Your README file must contain the following on a single line of text:
URL: yoururl
where yoururl is a URL to your running system. An script will extract these links from each submission, so if you don't include this line the TA will not be able to grade your project!. Below is a sample README file that includes this required line:
README File for Joe Student The files included are: hw4.c: C code for main CGI program subs.c: C code for some support subroutines subs.h: header file for subroutines Makefile: a makefile data: a data file that contains some names and addresses This system can be tested at the following URL: URL: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~joestud/hw4/ NOTES: This is probably the greatest moment of my life, as I have mastered CGI programming and can now start up my own dot.com. Thanks to Dave for allowing me to work on this project. Dave: once my new company is up and running I'll ask you to be on the Board of Directors and make sure you get all the cookies you want. |
As usual, you must also include in your submission a file named
README that includes a brief description of your
submission, including the name of each file submitted along with a one
line description of what is in the file. You should also include
instructions for building your code, problems you had or anything else
you think might be helpful to us. You don't have to worry about
what platform your developed the code on as we will test your live
system, but you do need to tell us what kind of machine your code is
running on.
Your project will be tested to make sure it works properly. 50% of the grade will be based on how well your project works when the user does everything the way you expect. 25% of the grade depends on how well your system works when the user abuses it (submits empty forms, sends nonsense requests, sends form fields that include HTML formatting, etc.).
25% of your homework grade depends on the how well we can understand your code - this means everything should be commented!
Submission of your homework is via email, the general idea is to send an email message with all your files as attachments. There is an automated email submission system that will respond to your submission right away, so you will have a record that we got your files.
All projects must be submitted via email to netprog-submit@cs.rpi.edu. The subject line of the submission message should contain a single number indicating the project number (1 for HW1, 2 for HW2, etc.). You must include your files as attachments, feel free to send a zip-file or a tar file.
Don't send compiled code!
You can expect a return email indicating receipt of your project submission immediately. This receipt will include a list of all the files that were successfully extracted by the submission script - please look over the receipt carefully to make sure your submission worked.
Multiple Submissions: You can resubmit up to 10 times for each project, we will always grade the last submission received unless you tell us otherwise.