Honours Project: - Napier University

Gregory Huet
Honours Project
99034735 Dr. William Buchanan
a set of programs for building and administering Web sites, a search engine, and support for
writing Web-based applications that access database. Microsoft points out that IIS is tightly
integration with the Windows NT and 2000 Servers in a number of ways, resulting in faster
Web page serving.
Microsoft includes special capabilities for server administrators designed to appeal to Internet
service providers (Internet service provider). It includes a single window (or "console") from
which all services and users can be administered. It's designed to be easy to add components
as "snap-ins" that you didn't initially install. The administrative windows can be customized
for access by individual customers.
IIS includes security features and promises that it is easy to install. It works closely with the
Microsoft Transaction Server to access databases and provide control at the transaction level.
It also works with Microsoft's Netshow in the delivery of streaming audio and video, delayed
or live.
4.2.4 Security
SSL 27 (Secure Sockets Layer) is a commonly-used protocol for managing the security of a
message transmission on the Internet. SSL uses a program layer located between the Internet's
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Transport Control Protocol (TCP) layers. SSL is
included as part of both the Microsoft and Netscape browsers and most Web server products.
SSL was developed by Netscape and is now supported by Microsoft and other Internet
client/server developers as well. The "sockets" part of the term refers to the sockets method of
passing data back and forth between a client and a server program in a network or between
program layers in the same computer. SSL uses the public-and-private key encryption system
from RSA, which also includes the use of a digital certificate.
SSL is an integral part of most Web browsers (clients) and Web servers. If a Web site is on a
server that supports SSL, SSL can be enabled and specific Web pages can be identified as
requiring SSL access. Any Web server can be enabled by using Netscape's SSLRef program
library which can be downloaded for non-commercial use or licensed for commercial use.
SSL is an alternative to another commonly-used security protocol, S-HTTP. Newer browsers
support both SSL and S-HTTP. Currently a de facto standard, SSL has been submitted to the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as a proposed official standard.
4.3 SQL and ASP
As the information that the user entered is saved in the database, it is necessary to organise
each data in a database. The information needs to be accurately and traceably stored in the
appropriate place, as it will be crucial, when editing, updating or deleting this information.
4.3.1 SQL
SQL stands for "Structured Query Language". This language allows us to pose complex
questions of a database. It also provides a means of creating databases. SQL very widely used.
Many database products support SQL, this means that if the developer has learnt how to use
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