[Note: this is the outline of a WWW tutorial I gave back in '94. I retain this ony my web site out of historical interest; a snapshot in the history of the web. It's content has not been updated since 1994, aside from this note.]

Tutorial Notes

This document was developed to support a tutorial that I gave to UC Davis Security Lab folks recently. It is sketchy, but has lots of good pointers. This tutorial is divided into 4 sections:

Mosaic
Getting other peoples stuff
Serving your own docs
HTML

Mosaic

custimization

file: .Xdefaults

       Mosaic*confirmExit:	False
       Mosaic*fancySelections:	True
       Mosaic*visitedAnchorColor:	red
       Mosaic*activeAnchorFG:	magenta
       Mosaic*colorsPerInlinedImage: 128
       Mosaic*documentsMenuSpecfile:	/home/hoagland/menu/mosaic.documents

file: mosaic.documents

       The Common Gateway Interface
       http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/
       Mosaic Fill-Out Form Support
       http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/fill-out-forms/overview.html
       NCSA httpd Image Mapping
       http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/setup/admin/Imagemap.html
       --
       CERN Server User Guide
       http://info.cern.ch/httpd/

Getting other peoples stuff

External "viewers"

Mapping file extensions to MIME types

file: .mime.types
application/postscript ai eps ps video/mpeg mpeg mpg mpe audio/basic au snd application/safex-csh csh application/safex-perl pl

Mapping MIME types to external viewers as per RFC 1524

file: .mailcap
image/*; xv %s audio/*; /usr/demo/SOUND/play %s application/safex-csh; /home/hoagland/bin/checksafe %s csh application/safex-perl; /home/hoagland/bin/checksafe %s perl

Executing shell scripts

file: checksafe
#!/bin/csh -f xmessage -title "**Check This $2 Script Out For Security**" -geometry 400x400 -display sierra.cs:0.0 -buttons "Execute this file:101,Cancel:102" $1 if ($status == 101) then $2 $1 endif
Run Me! if you are set up to execute scripts