The Fortune Server

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Summary

Your mission is simple. You are to write a web/telnet server that sends pithy and sometimes offensive sayings to the client. A person should be able to connect to your server with either a telnet or a http session. They will request a type of pithy saying (mild, offensive, or all) and you will provide it.

Details

Open a TCP socket. Wait for a connection. For each connection, do the following actions:

Message type = mild
If they send data within 0.5 seconds
- if the 5th byte is an 'o', message type=offensive
- if the 5th byte is an 'a', message type=all
fork yourself
If you're the child
- Dup stdout onto the socket
- exec fortune
- print an error
- call exit

Scoring out of 25 points

Turned in before Monday Nov 10th         5 points
Turned in after Thursday Nov 13th       -5 points
Can send one fortune                    10 points
Can vary the type of fortune             5 points
Sends when data available or 0.5 sec     5 points
Works with telnet or http                5 points
Every fork bomb of euclid               -2 points