PART 1

• For part 1, I have 1 python file named msg_server, 5 json test files and 2 html test files
• To run the server, you need to run this command on the terminal (or command prompt):

python3 msg_server.py <PORT_NUMBER> <-m> (for multi-threaded)

• Test: While the server is running on terminal, you can test the server by several ways

1. Go to any web browser and testing with the several links:

• http://HOST_NAME:PORT_NUMBER/ -> should return an html web page with all the links go to message board

• http://HOST_NAME:PORT_NUMBER/list1.json/ -> should return a json board file with full of messages from this board

• http://HOST_NAME:PORT_NUMBER/list1.json/1 -> should return a single json message at the given index from json board file: list1.json

• http://HOST_NAME:PORT_NUMBER/html_test.html/ -> should return an html board file with with full of messages from this board

• http://HOST_NAME:PORT_NUMBER/html_test.html/1 -> should return an html single message at the given index from html board file: html_test.html

• http://HOST_NAME:PORT_NUMBER/list1.json/4 -> should return 'Message not found', you can try with '1', '2' or '3'

• http://HOST_NAME:PORT_NUMBER/hello.json/ -> should return 'Board not found', you can try with 'list2.json', 'list3.json', 'list4.json'. 'list5.json' or 'html_test.html'

• Note:

• for the Content-Type request path, I choose to specify the "file extension" in the URL of GET request (.json or .html)
• HOST_NAME could be localhost or name@cs.umanitoba.ca if you run the server on aviary machine

2. Use the command curl:

• curl --get http://:/ -> return an html file with link to all message board

• curl --get http://:/list1.json/ -> return a json file with all messages

• curl --get http://:/list1.json/1 -> return a json single message at the given index

• curl --get http://:/html_test.html/ -> return an html file with all messages

• curl --get http://:/html_test.html/1 -> return an html single message at the given index

• curl -d '{"key1":"foo", "key2":"bar"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://:/test-data-board.json/ -> create new file test-data-board.json which include json message: '{"key1":"foo", "key2":"bar"}' and add new link into board.html which redirect to test-data-board.json

• curl -d '

  hello world!

  ' -H "Content-Type: text/html" http://:/test-data-board.html/ -> create new file test-data-board.html which include message: 'hello world' and add new link into board.html which redirect to test-data-board.html

PART 2

• For part 2, I have 2 python files named test_server.py and run_test.py
• For test_server.py, I did make a request to the hyper link to request data from the server and collect the time for each run time and load into the excel file.
• For run_test.py, I did allow to run the test_server.py 1000 time to collect time data.
• To test part 2, you just need to run the server first as the above instruction and run the file run_test.py and wait for it to generate 1000 collected time data and load it into .csv file.

python3 run_test.py