Providing Internet Services Via the Mac OS - Carl Steadman, Jason Snell

Providing Internet Services Via the Mac OS

Media-Kombination
432 Seiten
1996
Addison Wesley
978-0-201-48998-9 (ISBN)
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This guide shows Mac users how to take advantage of their desktop system to provide popular Internet services, such as FTP, gopher, World Wide Web pages and e-mail. The book includes coverage of working with protocols, setting up an Internet connection and selecting and configuring hardware.
With professional advice and step-by-step tutorials, Providing InternetServices via the Mac OS covers everything youneed to know about setting up, providing, and maintaining Internet servicesthrough the Mac OS. Every major Internet service--the Web, FTP, e-mail, mailinglists, Gopher, DNS--is explored, along with details on remote administration,maintenance tools, and other key topics you'll need to know about in order toget online and become a successful Internet publisher. This comprehensive text covers: *selecting and evaluating an Internet Service Provider for your full-time Netconnection *modem-based, ISDN, and leased-line connections *setting up a mail server for your organization's e-mail needs *providing and moderating a mailing list to establish an Internet-baseddiscussion group *serving files via the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) *publishing content via the Web, with an easy-to-follow HTML tutorial *a walkthrough of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) *the Common Gateway Interface (or CGI scripts), including a forms example *establishing your own domain name under the Domain Name System, or DNS.
Providing Internet Services via the Mac OS also comes with a CD-ROM,containing all the software you'll need to start using your Mac as an Internetserver, including special versions of StarNine's WebSTAR(TM) and ListSTAR(TM),InterCon's InterServerreg. Publisher, and Adobe PageMill(TM). You'll also findsuch goodies as Macjordomo for mailing lists, MIND for domain name service, aplethora of CGI tools and other Web utilities, and much, much more. With a foreword by Peter N Lewis, author of FTPd/Netpresenz, Anarchie, andcountless other Internet applications for the Mac 020148998XB04062001

Carl Steadman is the co-producer of the Suck Web site. Jason Snell is an associateeditor at MacUser and the founder and editor of the online magazine InterText. 020148998XAB04062001

Table of Contents


About the Authors.


Acknowledgments.


Foreword.


1.Introduction: Internet Services via the Mac OS.


Audience.



Organization.



CD-ROM and Online Resources.



2. Connecting to the Internet.


The Internet: Your Digital Connection.



Types of Internet Connections.



Selecting a Service Provider.



The Internet Protocol.



3. An Overview of Internet Services.


Distinction between Clients and Servers.



Types of Internet Services.



Selecting the Proper Hardware for Your Services.



4. Electronic Mail.


Mail User Agents and Mail Transport Agents.



SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.



POP: Post Office Protocol.



Mail Routing and the Domain System.



Apple Internet Mail Server.



Mail Gateways.



Mail Clients.



5. Mail-Based Services.


Mailing Lists and Other Mail Services.



Non-Mac List Servers on the Internet.



Apple Internet Mail Server: Broadcast Mailing Lists.



AutoShare: Auto-Replies and Mailing Lists.



Step by Step: Configuring AutoShare.



Step by Step: Auto-Reply Accounts.



Step by Step: Vacation Notices.



Step by Step: Running a List Server.



The AutoShare List Server from the Outside Looking In.



AutoShare: For More Information.



Macjordomo: POP-Based List Services.



Configuring Macjordomo.



Customizing Macjordomo¹s List Messages.



The Macjordomo List Server from the Outside Looking In.



Macjordomo: For More Information.



FireShare: An AppleScript Extension to AIMS.



Off to See the Wizard.



Step by Step: Installing FireShare.



FireShare: For More Information.



ListSTAR: The Industrial-Strength Mail Processor.



ListSTAR¹s Rules and Services.



Sample List Services.



You¹ve Made It!



Claris Emailer: A Simple Mailbot.



A Few Tips for Mailing List Administrators.



6. Serving Files via FTP.


An Internet File Server.



The File Transfer Protocol.



Stairways Software¹s FTPd.



Users & Groups: Creating Accounts.



FTPd Setup: Configuring the Server.



Step by Step: Creating a Simple FTPd Server.



White Pine Software¹s FTPShare.



InterCon¹s InterServer Publisher.



InterServer Publisher: For More Information.



InterCon¹s TCP/Connect II.



NCSA Telnet: No Frills.



Designing an FTP Archive.



FTP Clients.



7. Gopher.


Gopher: Hierarchical Net Surfing.



Gopher Surfer.



Step by Step: Setting Up Gopher Surfer.



FTPd: Your Basic Gopher.



InterServer Publisher.



InterServer Publisher: For More Information.



Gopher Clients.



TurboGopher.



TurboGopher VR.



8. The Web.


HTTP.



HTTP Ports.



A Typical HTTP Transaction.



Content Types.



Root Directories and Paths.



Security Basics.



Naming Your Web Server.



FTPd 3.0.



InterServer Publisher.



WebSTAR.



HTML QuickStart.



CGI Scripting.



9. Domain Name Services.


Domain Name Architecture.



Registering Your Domain Name.



Naming Hosts.



Resource Records.



MIND.



QuickDNS.



Testing Your DNS.



Domain Registration Template.



10. Other Services.


Other Mac OS-Based Internet Server Applications.



The Swiss Army Knife: Daemon.



Telnet to AppleScript: Script Daemon.



Person-to-Person: Talk.



Live Chat: Chat.



Internet Security: SOCKS.



Quick-and-Dirty File Transfer: TFTPd.



11. Remote Administration and Maintenance Tools.


Timbuktu Pro.



Okey Dokey.



Keep It Up.



AutoBoot.



Remote Process Management Using FTPd.



Appendix A. Uniform Resource Locators.


Syntax.



Specific URL Schemes.



Other URs.



Appendix B. Character Entities.


Appendix C. The CD-ROM.


ACME Script Widgets.



Acrobat Reader.



Adobe PageMill.



AIMS LocalTalk Bridge.



AutoBoot.



AutoShare.



BBEdit Lite.



BBEdit HTML Tools.



Chat.



Clip2gif.



ColorFinder.



cCron.



Daemon.



FireShare.



FlattenMooV.



FTPd.



FTPShare.



Hologate.



InterServer Publisher.



Keep It Up.



ListSTAR.



Macintosh Internet Name Daemon (MIND).



Macjordomo.



MacPerl.



MapServe.



MacTCP Watcher.



MacTraceroute.



Negative Space Collection.



NetCloak.



NetForms.



NetWings.



Overlord Internet Gateway.



PhotoGif.



ProJPEG.



QuickDNS Lite.



Russell Owen¹s FileMaker CGI.



Script Daemon.



ServerStat Lite.



SOCKS.



Talk.



TFTPd.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.6.1996
Verlagsort Boston
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 755 g
Themenwelt Informatik Betriebssysteme / Server Macintosh / Mac OS X
Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Netzwerke
Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Web / Internet
ISBN-10 0-201-48998-8 / 0201489988
ISBN-13 978-0-201-48998-9 / 9780201489989
Zustand Neuware
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