Some Resources for CSCI 363

Request For Comments

Request for Comments (RFC) is a mechanism for the internet community to propose, revise, and distribute internet related protocols.

The official RFC documents are maintained by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

• http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html

General TCP/IP Programming Information

• Doug Comer's computer network books website which include a lot of programming examples.
• Transport Protocol Numbers by IANA
• A list of type and code for the ICMP protocol.

Packet Capture Information

• Textbook authors' Wireshark lab website
• Wireshark site
• PCAP Dump File Format by www.tcpdump.org
• A PCAP tutorial by Martin Casado of Stanford.
• An example of using libpcap to process packet.
• Libcap file format

Git Information

• Pro Git -- an online book authored by Scott Chacon and published by Apress.
• Git Reference -- an online Git Reference.
• Learn Git Branching -- a series on-line Git exercises

C and GNU C Information

• GNU C reference
• GNU C library reference
• libcurl a free and easy-to-use client-side URL library supporting many application protocols.

HTTP and HTTPS Information

• RFC 6265 : HTTP State Management Mechanism
• HTTP cookies explained by Nicholas Zakas (03/05/2009)
• Persistent Client State HTTP Cookies a copy of the original Netscape document kepted by cURL
• RFC 7232 : Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Conditional Requests
• HTTP Conditional GET

Interesting Internet and Programming Tools

• Internet router statistics reported by http://www.cidr-report.org/as2.0/.
• A good page that explains dig, a host name/IP address look-up tool.
• This page explains the DNS record format, DNS stands for Domain Name System
• IMAP commands explained.
• Valgrind A memory debugging tool, its Wikipedia page.

Multimedia Network

• Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP: Design Principles and Standards by Thomas Stockhammer of Qualcomm

Miscellaneous

• Internet Hall of Fame and the list of all inductees
• The website http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-big-and-little-endian-byte-order/ explains endians very well!
• CRC program example
• A good discussion about CRC16-CCITT and its implementation at http://srecord.sourceforge.net/crc16-ccitt.html
• Ross Williams's discussion and code on CRC
• Byte order and bits order by Kevin Kaichuan He
• A nice article about byte order by Jan Wlter.
• Another good discussion of byte order by Bruce Blinn.
• History of CDMA
• History of CDMA from Ericsson's website
• A very good overview article on IEEE 802.11 protocols by Microsoft.
• http://htluo.blogspot.com/2009/01/sip-domain-and-dns-domain.html: A good explanation on how SIP works.
• File Magic Number explained.