Introduction to Web Technology
Lab Programming
Part 1. The library at a fictional Whosville College provides an online web form for the students to search for books in the library. The server service for this web form is running at http://library.whosville/bsearch with method GET and it accepts the following parameters:
● author: this parameter is to specify the author of the books;
● year: this is to specify the publication year;
● sub: this parameter is to specify the subject of the books. It can accept multiple values, and the valid values are: mth for Mathematics, cs for Computer Science, bio for Biology, phy for Physics, and chem for Chemistry.
Create a web form that look like the following:
Test the web form. If the web form works correctly, then when the user enters smith for author name, 2020 for the publication year, Biology and Chemistry for subjects, and clicks Search, then the URL should show: http://library.whosville/bsearch?author=smith&year=2020&sub=bio&sub=chem
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Part 2. Go to the website https://ebay.com.au and play with the search web form. Type some keyword and choose some category to search. Try to find out the following information:
● What is the action of the form?
● What is the parameter for the keyword?
● What is the parameter for the category?
● What are the values for the following category: Art, Book & Magazine, Coins, Music, Stamps, All categories?
After obtain the above information, create a web form that look like the following:
Test the web form. If the web form works correctly, then it should submit to the ebay server and display correct results.
