Estimate the energy required for an average person (see Fig.9.32) to run a mile in 4 minutes in still standard air. Compare yourestimate if you instead modeled the person as a cylinder 6 ft talland 2 ft in diameter
Lecture 7 Web caches (proxy server) o Goal is to satisfy client requests withoug involving the origin server o Basically recently requested objects are housed in the cache. The browser sends HTTP requests to the cache and if it is there it returns right away, otherwise it requests the obj from the origin server and returns that o Cache can also rend a request to the origin server to check if the requested obect has been modified since it was stored in the cache. If it has been, the cache requests the new version and stores that, then returns the new obj to the server Electronic mail o Three componenets User agents Outlook, gmail, etc. Mail servers Where the messages are atually stored Message queue of outgoing mail messages SMTP is used to send messgae between mail servers SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Uses TCP on port 25 Transfers directly from one mail server to the recipient server Three phase transfer Handshake Transfer of messages Closure Messages must be in 7-bit ASCII