1. Introduction to the new mainframe © Copyright IBM Corp., 2005. All rights reserved. Chapter 13: z/OS HTTP Server

2. Introduction to the new mainframe © Copyright IBM Corp., 2005. All rights reserved. Objectives After reading this chapter, you will be able to: List the three server modes Explain static and dynamic Web pages List at least two functions from each of the following modes: Basic Security Caching Understand how to deploy a Web application on z/OS

3. Introduction to the new mainframe © Copyright IBM Corp., 2005. All rights reserved. Key terms in this chapter CGI dynamic FRCA HTTP J2EE LDAP SSL static

4. Introduction to the new mainframe © Copyright IBM Corp., 2005. All rights reserved. Introduction to Web applications on z/OS: Past: Many applications are tied to z/OS (CICS, DB2) New developments made on other platforms Now: Integrate both on z/OS

5. Introduction to the new mainframe © Copyright IBM Corp., 2005. All rights reserved. z/OS HTTP Server Server modes: Stand-alone server Scalable server Multiple servers Static Web pages Dynamic Web pages

6. Introduction to the new mainframe © Copyright IBM Corp., 2005. All rights reserved. Dynamic Web Pages Common Gateway Interface (CGI)

7. Introduction to the new mainframe © Copyright IBM Corp., 2005. All rights reserved. Dynamic Web Pages - Interaction with WebSphere WebSphere plug-in, same address space

8. Introduction to the new mainframe © Copyright IBM Corp., 2005. All rights reserved. Dynamic Web Pages - Interaction with WebSphere Web container inside HTTP Server, separate EJB container

9. Introduction to the new mainframe © Copyright IBM Corp., 2005. All rights reserved. Dynamic Web Pages - Interaction with WebSphere Separate J2EE server with both Web container and EJB container

10. Introduction to the new mainframe © Copyright IBM Corp., 2005. All rights reserved. HTTP server capabilities Basic functions : EBCDIC/ASCII file access System Management Facilities Tracing & logging Server Side Includes Simple Network Management Protocol Management Information Base (SNMP MIB) Cookies support Multi Format Processing Persistent connections Virtual hosts

11. Introduction to the new mainframe © Copyright IBM Corp., 2005. All rights reserved. HTTP server capabilities (continued) Security functions: Thread level security HTTPS/SSL support LDAP support Certificate authentication Proxy support

12. Introduction to the new mainframe © Copyright IBM Corp., 2005. All rights reserved. HTTP server capabilities (continued) File caching: HTTP server caching HFS files HTTP server caching z/OS data sets Unix System Service caching HFS files Fast Response Cache Accelerator (FRCA)

13. Introduction to the new mainframe © Copyright IBM Corp., 2005. All rights reserved. Summary In this chapter, you learned about: The three server modes Static and dynamic Web pages These HTTP server modes: Basic Security Caching Deploying a Web application on z/OS