The Application Layer

Computer Networking: a Top-Down Approach (8^th ed.)

J.F. Kurose, K.W. Ross, Pearson, 2020
http://gaia.cs.umass.edu/kurose_ross

2.1
Principles of Network Applications

Applications; client-server, P2P, sockets, APIs; transport services
2.2
The Web and HTTP

Overview, statelessness, HTTP messages, cookies, (part 1), caching, HTTP/2 (part 2)
2.3
Email

Email infrastructure (mail clients, SMTP servers), SMTP, IMAP
- Video
- Notes
- Knowledge checks
- Problems
2.4
The Domain Name Service: DNS
- Video
- Notes
- Knowledge checks
- Problems
2.5
Peer-to-Peer File Distribution
- Problems
2.6
Video Streaming and Content Distribution Networks
2.7
Socket Programming: Creating Network Applications

socket abstraction, UDP and TCP socket programming
2.8
Chapter 2: Supplemental topics

Web tracking, 3rd party cookies, GDPR
- Video
- Notes