Syllabus of Andhra University BTech Information Technology - IT 4.1.6 - Network Programming Lab

Fourth year - First Semester

1. Identifying well known ports on a Local/Remote System:
By trying to listen to the various well-known ports by opening client connections. If the exception does not occur then the remote port is active else the remote port is inactive.

2. Writing a chat application:
i) One-One: By opening socket connection and displaying what is written by one party to the other.
ii) Many-Many (Broad cast): Each client opens a socket connection to that chat server and writes to the socket. What ever is written by one party can be seen by all other parties.

3. Data retrieval from a Remote database:
At the remote database a server listens for client connections. The server accepts SQL Queries from the client executes it on the database and sends the responses to the client.

4. Mail Client: i) POP Client: Gives the server name, user name and password, retrieve the mails and allow manipulation of mailbox using POP commands.
ii) SMTP Client: Gives the server name, send email to the recipient using SMTP commands.

5. Simulation of Telnet:
Provide a user interface to contact well known ports so that client server interaction can be seen by the user.

6. Simple file transfer between two systems (with out protocols):
By opening socket connection to our server on one system and sending a file from one system to another.

7. HTTP Server:
Develop a HTTP server to implement the following commands.
GET, POST HEAD, DELETE.
The server must handle multiple clients.

1) Downloading Image Files from HTTP server: Using Java URL connection class (Ref. Book: Java Network Programming-Orielly)