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this gives details of the network programming

Sample custom web server for timedate.com 
This server responds to requests of the form:

GET /mm/dd/yyyy

and reports on the number of hits each hour for the specified date.

Files:

timedate.c: the main server code.
hitsubs.c:  support for the hit database
lock.c: file locking routines.
readline.c: a readline function.
hitcount: the hit database
phoneyhits: a perl script that creates a (phoney) record for today.

To test this out:

build and run timedate, note the port number printed out and the hostname
of the machine it is running on. 

point your browser to http://hostname:port/

now try a another day - http://hostname:port/3/15/1999

questions to [e-mail]


2/10/2000 DLH PROBLEMS: 

phoneyhits somehow messes things up, I'm not sure why and don't
have time to fiddle. For now the hitcount DB parsing proceeds until
an error, at which point it stops but uses what it has...