WebFund 2016W Lecture 8

Video

The video from the lecture given on February 2, 2016 is now available.

Student Notes

Agenda

• Spoke/explained the solutions for assignment 2.
• Answered questions about the upcoming assignment 3.

Topics (from assignment 2 & 3)

• What does the regular expression on line 92 of tinywebserver.js do? (Answer: Prevents breaking out of the current directory by using .. and ~)
• What does path.normalize do? (Answer: Tries to fix a malformed path. e.g. /home//dave/ becomes /home/dave/)
• What is Jade? (Answer: Templating language.)