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Application Layer Flashcards

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Client-Server Architecture

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SERVER: Always-on host, permanent IP address

CLIENT: Communicate with server, not directly with each other, intermittently connected, dynamic IP address

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Peer-Peer Architecture

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  • No always-on server
  • End systems communicate directly with each other
  • Intermittently connected and change IP address
  • self scalability
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Process

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Program running within a host

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Client, Server Process Communication

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CLIENT: process that initiates communication
SERVER: Process that waits to be contacted

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Socket

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Software structure that serves as endpoint for sending and receiving data across the network (like a door). Two sockets, one on each side.

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Addressing Processes

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Includes IP ADDRESS and PORT NUMBER. To receive messages, process must have identifier.

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HTTP Overview

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Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Uses TCP connection, is “stateless”

CLIENT: Browser that requests, receives and displays Web objects using HTTP Protocol

SERVER: Web server sends objects in response to request using HTTP protocol

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TCP

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Transmission Control Protocol. Organizes data in a way that ensures secure transmission

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TCP Procedure

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  1. Client initiates TCP connection to server, port 80
  2. Server accepts TCP connection from client
  3. HTTP messages exchanged between browser (HTTP client) and Web server (HTTP server)
  4. Connection is closed
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Another name for HTTP messages

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Application-layer protocol messages

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“Stateless”

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Server maintains no information about past client requests to this server. Can use info from requests to other servers

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Non-persistent HTTP

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Can only send one object per connection. Downloading multiple objects requires multiple connections.

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Non-Persistent HTTP Procedure

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  1. TCP connection opened
  2. Send one object over connection
  3. TCP connection closed
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Persistent HTTP

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Can use one connection to send multiple objects.

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Persistent HTTP Procedure

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  1. TCP connection opened
  2. Multiple objects send between server and client
  3. TCP connection closed
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Non-persistent HTTP Response Time (per object)

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  • One RTT for initiate TCP
  • One RTT for HTTP request and first few bytes of HTTP response to return
  • object/file transmission time

time = 2RTT + file transmission time

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RTT

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Round Trip Time (non-persistent HTTP). Time for a small packet to travel from client to server and back

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Example Non-persistent: Client requests for web page having 4 parallel connections?

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4RTT + 2 file transmission time

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Example Non-persistent: Client requests for web page having 8 parallel connections?

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8RTT + 4 file transmission time

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Example Persistent: Client requests for web page having 4 or 8 parallel connections?

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3RTT + 2 file transmission time

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Types of HTTP Messages

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  1. Request
  2. Response
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HTTP Return Line Format

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[HTTP method] space [URL] space [HTTP version]

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HTTP Message Format

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  1. Request line
  2. Header lines
  3. Body
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HTTP Methods

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  1. POST
  2. GET
  3. HEAD
  4. PUT
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HTTP POST Method

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  • web page includes form input
  • user input sent in body
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HTTP GET Method

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For sending data to server. Include user data in URL field of HTTP

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HTTP HEAD Method

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Request headers that would be returned if specified URL were requested with HTTP GET method

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HTTP PUT Method

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  • Uploads new file/object to server
  • Completely replaces file that exists at specified URL
  • Uses body to send replacement file
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Cookies

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Used by web sites and client browsers to maintain some state between transactions. Unique ID maps to entry in backend database

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Cookie Components

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  1. Cookie header line of HTTP response message
  2. Cookie header line in next HTTP request message
  3. Cookie file kept on user host, managed by user’s browser
  4. Back-end database at web site
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DNS Services

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  • host name to IP address translation
  • host aliasing (canonical names)
  • mail server aliasing
  • load distribution
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DNS

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Domain Name System

  • Distributed database implemented in hierarchy of many name servers
  • implemented as application-layer protocol
  • hosts and name servers communicate to resolve names
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DNS Hierarchy

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  1. Root
  2. Top level domain (.edu)
  3. Authoritative (gmu.edu)
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Local DNS Servers

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  • each ISP has one DNS server
  • host DNS queries get sent to local DNS server
  • has cache
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DNS Iterated Query

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Contacted sever replies with name of next server to contact (“idk but ask this server”)

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DNS Recursive Query

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  • puts burden of name resolution on contacted server
  • heavy load on upper levels of hierarchy
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DNS Resource Record Types

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  1. A
  2. NS
  3. CNAME
  4. MX
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A Resource Record Type

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NAME is hostname, VALUE ip address

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NS Resource Record Type

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NAME is domain, VALUE is hostname of authoritative name server

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CNAME Resource Record Type

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NAME is alias for “canonical name”, VALUE is canonical name

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MX Resource Record Type

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VALUE is mail server name associated with NAME

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Web Cache

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  • Goal is to satisfy request without origin server
  • User configures browser to point to a web cache
  • browser sends all HTTP requests to cache
  • installed by ISP
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Web Cache Hit

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Object is in cache, return object to client

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Web Cache Miss

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Object not in cache, request object from origin server, cache returned object and return to client

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Review Web Cache Example

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43
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Web Cache Conditional GET

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Goal is to not send object of cache has up-to-date version

CACHE: specify date of date limit in HTTP request
SERVER: response contains no object of cached copy is up-to-date

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HTTP 1.1

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Key Goal: decreased delay in multi-object HTTP requests

Introduced multiple, pipelined GETs over single TCP connection. Server responds in-order to GET requests.

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HTTP 2

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  • Objects divided into frames
  • Frame transmission interleaved/synchronous
  • Reduces waiting time for all objects and recovery from packet loss
  • Stalls object transmissions
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HTTP 3

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  • adds security
  • per object error and congestion control over UDP
  • uses QUIC protocol
47
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SMTP

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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol,
uses user agents and mail servers

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SMTP User Agent

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  • mail reader
  • composing, editing, reading mail messages
  • outgoing, incoming messages stored on server
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SMTP Mail Server

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  • MAILBOX containing incoming messages
  • MESSAGE QUEUE of outgoing messages
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SMTP Procedure

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  1. User agent sends message to its mail server using SMTP
  2. Mail server sends message to next mail server using SMTP or puts the message in the queue
  3. Next mail server sends the message to the other user agent using IMAP or HTTP
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File Distribution Example

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52
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BitTorrent

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  • type of P2P file distribution
  • peers in torrent send/receive file chunks
  • has TRACKERS and TORRENT
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BitTorrent Tracker

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Tracks peers that are participating in the torrent

54
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BitTorrent Torrent

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Group of peers exchanging chunks of a file

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