Blog Post #6- March 27th, 2011- "The Orange Bazaar"

In addition to creating a viable customer base for the "The Orange Bazaar," Syracuse University's version of the very popular website eBay, as well as lining up essential products for students to buy from other students, "The Orange Bazaar" also needs to be flawless with its technological aspects. Since this website is completely dependent on the Internet, it needs to be able to follow correct protocol to create a flawless connection between the client and the web server. These technical aspects are an essential part of the website because if the Internet fails, the website loses its total value and students have no way of visiting the website. Having a dependent network is the key aspect to running this successful business.

"The Orange Bazaar" needs to follow correct Protocol. This is a four step process, which includes 1) Rules of Communication, 2) Syntax and Semantics, 3) Small Acts, and 4) Protocols can relate to other Protocols in terms of layers. The website also needs to have flawless networks, servers, and packets. A packet is like a digital envelope and contains a small chunk of information. For example, an email requires dozens, or even hundreds of packets if it contains an attachment. "The Orange Bazaar" needs to be able to have reliable packets in case different Syracuse University students communicate with each other about the different products they are selling, or if they are interested in trading products with one another, or if one student is simply interested in buying something from another student.

"The Orange Bazaar" would also have a reliable HTTP, which stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the four step process between the client and the web server. It is the way in which web clients (ie. browsers) communicate with web servers (ie. web sites). The four step process includes 1) Make a connection, 2) HTTP requests, 3) HTML files (response), and 4) Closes connection (most important step). HTTP can handle millions of transaction each and every day. Having a reliable HTTP would be very valuable to "The Orange Bazaar"because if the web clients cannot connect and communicate with the web server, then Syracuse University students have no way of visiting the web site in the first place. Therefore, "The Orange Bazaar" needs to be easily accessible through all web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, etc. All of these web browsers need to be compatible with this website in order for students to visit it in the first place.