91.520-Internet and Web Systems
Hyperlink context viewer (URL mapper)

(Under constant construction; last updated: December 7, 1998)

Here's a project that one of the students in one of the previous classes suggested: ``You know... If I had the time, I would love to allocate some portion of my day to dedicate to an interesting project: "Create a cgi that would show the map of a certain url" Like, opening a url, grabing ALL the , and recurse into the new urls (down to a determined level, of course) and then, show on the fly a list with the urls from the initial url (root) displayng the DEAD links, appointing loops in the structure, etc... And all this ready to be used by anyone on the web. This involves "graph" and "networking" (as the cgi would pretend to be a client) and who knows... could be a project you can hand to one of the grad students?''

Indeed. You could also think of ways to make the ``spagehtti bowl'' experience less so. For example, develop a way to provide the context of ``where am I, where have I been, where can I go.'' If you try to navigate, e.g., the Java Tutorial, you would appreciate this.

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