HIGH PERFORMANCE VISUAL BASIC 5 WEB DEVELOPMENT
(Imprint: CORIOLIS GROUP BOOKS)
(Imprint: CORIOLIS)
Author: SCOTT JAROL
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 1576100634

CHAPTER 01 - Jump Start

• Chapter 1

• Jump Start

  • A New World Of ActiveX

    • An Instant Web Browser

    • Instant ActiveX Controls

  • Internet Communications With Winsock

    • The Winsock Server

    • Listening For A Winsock Connection

      • Making The Winsock Connection

      • Exchanging Data

    • The Winsock Client

      • Connecting To The Server

  • A Handful Of Powerful Tools

• Chapter 2

• Visual Basic And The Internet

  • Web And Internet Programming

    • Internet Utilities

    • New Internet Applications

    • CGI And Database Publishing

    • ActiveX Web Controls

    • Mix And Match Technology

  • A Word About Objects

    • Visual Basic Object Classes

    • Limitations Of Visual Basic Objects

    • Sharing Objects

    • Who Needs Pointers?

  • Ready To Go

• Chapter 3

• Just The Facts

  • Agents And Bots

  • Grabbing Documents With HTTP

    • Requesting A Document

    • Headers And Their Fields

    • Here Comes The Data

  • HTTP In Action

    • Designing The HTTP Experiment Form

    • Performing An HTTP Document Transfer

  • Tree The Web

    • A Pruned Tree Is A Happy Tree

    • Running The Web Explorer

    • Designing The Web Explorer Form

    • Requesting A Web Document

    • Receiving The File

    • Extracting The Hyperlinks

      • An Object With Growth Potential

      • From Document To Tree

      • Handling Protocol Specifiers Other Than HTTP

      • Methods That Talk To Themselves

      • Remember To Call DoEvents In Recursive Procedures

    • Displaying Hyperlinks In The TreeView Control

    • Housekeeping Code

  • Building A Web Robot

    • Running The Web Robot

    • Designing The Web Robot Form

    • Changes To The Form Code

    • Roaming The Web

    • Watch Those Transfer Errors

    • Don't Let Your Robots Grow Up To Be Monsters

    • Resources For Robot Designers

• Chapter 4

• The VB Document Analyst

  • Parser Primer

  • The VB Document Analyst

    • Implementing The Parser

    • The Parser Poseidon Adventure

    • Other Operator Procedures

    • Picking Up The Pieces

    • Other clsDocuments Methods

    • The clsMatchLists And clsMatch Classes

  • Hacking The Parser

• Chapter 6

• Cut The Junk From Internet News

  • Developing A Complete Internet News Client

    • Running The Visual Basic News Reader

    • Creating The Main Form

    • Storing Newsgroup Names

      • What's In A Name?

      • Converting Newsgroup Names Into Database Records

    • From Database To TreeView

    • Selecting A Newsgroup

      • Using DoEvents During Asynchronous Data Transfers

    • Retrieving A News Article

    • Posting A News Article

    • Filtering The News

    • The Connection Information Form

    • The Article Posting Form

    • Utility Functions

  • Tame The Internet Document Jungle

• CGI Fundamentals

• HTML Forms

• Windows CGI Programming

• A Simple CGI Program

• Who Needs Document Files?

• Building Web Forms

• The <INPUT> Tag

  • Input Type TEXT

  • Input Type PASSWORD

  • Input Type CHECKBOX

  • Input Type RADIO

  • Input Type SUBMIT

  • Input Type RESET

  • Input Type IMAGE

  • Input Type HIDDEN

• The <SELECT> Tag

• The <TEXTAREA> Tag

• Testing Your Form

• VB And The CGI Database Connection

• A Simple Database-DrivenCGI Application

• Coding The CGI Database Experiment

• Constructing The Database

• Returning CGI Query Results In AnHTML Table

• HTML Tables

• HTML Table Tags

  • <TABLE>

  • <CAPTION>

  • <TR>

  • <TD> And <TH>

• Sending A Table

• A Database-Driven Event Calendar

• Running The CGI Event Calendar

• Table Trials And Tribulations

• A Table Object Model

• Calendars From Tables

• Completing The CGI Event Calendar Program

• No-Fear CGI With VB5

• Chapter 8

• Advanced CGI

  • Building A Web Site In Visual Basic

  • Differentiating Pages With The CGI Logical Path

  • Running The CGI Web Site Experiment

  • Coding The CGI Web Site Experiment

  • Who's Who On Your Web Site

  • Identifying Clients By Their IP Addresses

  • Project: Establishing A User Context By IP Address

    • Managing The Shortcomings Of IP Address Identification

      • Unique IP Addresses On Corporate Intranets

    • Unlogging Expired Users

    • Identifying Users After Each HTTP Request

    • Logging In New Or Existing Users

  • Identifying Clients With Logical Path Identifiers

  • Project: Establishing A User Context With Logical Path Identifiers

  • Identifying Clients With Cookies

    • Are Cookies Safe?

      • Peeking At Your Cookies

      • Online Cookie Resources

  • Project: Establishing A User Context With Cookies

    • Running CGIWebSiteExp4.EXE

    • Modifications To The User Database

    • Give Me A Cookie

    • Make Me A Cookie

  • Security Alert

  • Designing Sites With User Contexts

• Designing The RolloverMenu Control

• Name Those Classes Now!

  • Project Compatibility

  • Compiling The Control Into An OCX

• Creating An Internet Setup File

• Designing The Server Form

• From EXE To OCX

• Introduction

  • Chapter Overview