Contents

• List of Figures
• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 About this document
  • 1.2 The FMC Philosophy
  • 1.3 The modeling project
  • 1.4 Sources of Information
  
  
• 2. HTTP Servers
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Tasks of an HTTP Server
  • 2.3 Protocols and Standards
    • 2.3.1 RFCs and other standardization documents
    • 2.3.2 TCP/IP
    • 2.3.3 Domain Name Service (DNS)
    • 2.3.4 HTTP
  • 2.4 Access Control and Security
    • 2.4.1 Authorization
    • 2.4.2 Authentication methods
    • 2.4.3 HTTPS and SSL
  • 2.5 Session Management
    • 2.5.1 HTTP -- a stateless(G) protocol
    • 2.5.2 Keep the state
  • 2.6 Dynamic Content
    • 2.6.1 Server-side Scripting
  
  
• 3. The Apache HTTP Server
  • 3.1 Overview
    • 3.1.1 History
    • 3.1.2 Features
  • 3.2 Using Apache
    • 3.2.1 Configuration
    • 3.2.2 Performance
  • 3.3 Extending Apache: Apache Modules (G)
    • 3.3.1 Introduction
    • 3.3.2 Types of Handlers
    • 3.3.3 Content Handling
    • 3.3.4 Apache 2 Filters
    • 3.3.5 Predefined Hooks
    • 3.3.6 Inside a Module: mod_cgi
    • 3.3.7 The Apache API
  
  
• 4. Inside Apache
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Structure of the Source Distribution
    • 4.2.1 Apache 1.3.17 source distribution
    • 4.2.2 Apache 2.0.45 source distribution
  • 4.3 Multitasking server architectures (G)
    • 4.3.1 Inetd: A common multitasking architecture
    • 4.3.2 Overview -- Apache Multitasking Architectures
    • 4.3.3 The Preforking Multiprocessing Architecture
    • 4.3.4 Apache Multitasking Architectures and MPMs
    • 4.3.5 Win32/WinNT MPM
    • 4.3.6 Worker MPM
    • 4.3.7 Others MPMs
  • 4.4 The Request-Response Loop
    • 4.4.1 Overview
    • 4.4.2 Waiting for connection requests
    • 4.4.3 Waiting for and reading HTTP requests
    • 4.4.4 Process HTTP Request
  • 4.5 The Configuration Processor
    • 4.5.1 Where and when Apache reads configuration
    • 4.5.2 Internal data structures
    • 4.5.3 Processing global configuration data at start-up
    • 4.5.4 Processing configuration data on requests
  • 4.6 Memory and resource management: Apache Pools
    • 4.6.1 Why another memory management
    • 4.6.2 The pool structure
    • 4.6.3 The pool API (G)
  
  
• A. Operating System Concepts
  • A.1 Unix Processes
    • A.1.1 fork()
    • A.1.2 exec()
    • A.1.3 wait() & waitpid()
    • A.1.4 kill()
  • A.2 Signals and Alarms
    • A.2.1 Signals
    • A.2.2 Usage
  • A.3 Sockets
    • A.3.1 TCP vs. UDP Ports
    • A.3.2 Asynchronous Events
    • A.3.3 Sockets in general
    • A.3.4 TCP Sockets
    • A.3.5 UDP Sockets
  • A.4 Pipes
    • A.4.1 Using pipes for inter process communication
    • A.4.2 STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR
    • A.4.3 Implementation
    • A.4.4 Named pipes
  • A.5 Longjmp
    • A.5.1 Concept
    • A.5.2 Example Longjump
    • A.5.3 Common application
    • A.5.4 Common Pitfalls
  
  
• B. Sources
  • B.1 Simple HTTP Server
  
  
• C. Fundamental Modeling Concepts (FMC)
  • C.1 What is FMC?
  • C.2 Compositional structures and block diagrams
    • C.2.1 Example system
    • C.2.2 Block diagrams
  • C.3 Dynamic structures and Petri nets
    • C.3.1 Behavior of dynamic systems
    • C.3.2 Petri nets
  • C.4 Value range structures and entity relationship diagrams
    • C.4.1 Structured values and their relationships
    • C.4.2 Entity Relationship Diagrams
  • C.5 Levels of abstraction
    • C.5.1 High-level structures
    • C.5.2 Hierarchy of models
    • C.5.3 Lower-level structures
  • C.6 What is special about FMC?
  
  
• D. GNU Free Documentation License
• Bibliography
• Index