ANONYMOUS wrote The longest in the Transperth dataset appears to be 'St Georges Tce Before William St Eastbound', so if we set the max to be 60 chars we'll be safe. (not a fan of dynamic memory?)

Hi, is there a maximum length of a station name? Thank you

ANONYMOUS wrote You must be looking in the Transperth data, already. Yes, we'll just ignore any trips starting or finishing after midnight.

Thanks for your help

Some timetables go past midnight and will say, for example, "24 16". Should we discard these times or keep them?

Hello Ethan, Let's assume (guarantee) that every journey can be completed on the day it was started - if a requested journey can't be completed by 11 59PM any day, then it "doesn't exist", and that condition should be reported back via the web-browse...

ANONYMOUS wrote The project requires two or more programs to communicate across a network. If all goes well - great - and the successes will be the correct meaningful results. But a number of things can go wrong - network messages not delivered, inva...

Hi, Just checking, but if you reach an intermediate station at 10pm, and the last train was at 9pm, should you wait until the next train at 6am the next day, or just say you cannot get to the destination? (Also, can we assume that the timetable will be...

Hi, this is referring to the clarifications page of the project. At the bottom of the page, we are told to focus on a couple questions. One of these questions is How will success and failures be communicated? I was just wondering what is meant by succe...

Hello, ANONYMOUS wrote Not sure what you mean by 'hints' here. For the project, you may assume that all addresses in use are IPv4, as not all (limited) devices support IPv6 and not all systems choose to enable support it by default. They should all be ...

ANONYMOUS wrote Each station-server will be reading its station's timetable information from a file on the local disk. The file's name will not change. At any time, that file's contents may be updated to provide new timetable information, that should ...

ANONYMOUS wrote This is a very relevant question, and a good one to be asked at this stage, but it's the sort of question you should be discussing with your team members (please).

ANONYMOUS wrote 3. each station server will accept queries about its timetable data from a standard web-browser (a passenger making a query from their mobile phone). The query and reply will be transmitted using the (minimum amount necessary of the) ...

no station server should ever contain all knowledge about the whole network, timetabling data, or network connections. Each station's timetabling data, recorded in one textfile for each station, may change at any time (for example, if a bus breaks do...

Which framework is best for this project socket or socketserver? They both seem to both have advantages and disadvantages

Hi, I have a bunch of questions and I thought I'd just make one post instead of many small ones. 1) What kind of hints should we use for sockets? Does supporting IPv4 6 matter? In the real world, is there such thing as a device that only uses IPv4 or ...

ANONYMOUS wrote The fastest journey is one that arrives at the destination soonest - even if you have to wait around at the starting platform before the first leg.

Hi Chris, hoping for clarification on the following dot point Ideally, the returned result will be the fastest journey - even if it leaves later or includes more segments (hops) than other journeys (but firstly, just report any any valid journey ) S...

ANONYMOUS wrote Yes, that's exactly as expected. That is what the web-browser is sending the the 'nc' process, which is listening on port 4444. Probably because you're missing the colon before the 4444.

So after running nc -l 4444, I get this output in terminal GET HTTP 1.1 Host localhost 4444 Connection keep-alive sec-ch-ua "Google Chrome";v "123", "Not A-Brand";v "8", "Chromium";v "123" sec-ch-ua-mobile ?0 sec-ch-ua-platform "macOS" Upgrade-Insec...

I think it was when I downloaded the files, the calendar.txt was missing (for some unknown reason), so I went back and downloaded it again and checked the files.

ANONYMOUS wrote Great - what was missing, or what did you have to correct?

ANONYMOUS wrote That's very odd - which platform? Wondering if you don't have a name mapping to 127.0.0.1 (which would be odd). Can you access - 127.0.0.1 4444 ?? Ahh, that's where I got up to yesterday before going home; I've marked it as 'Under Co...

ANONYMOUS wrote Yes, a station will almost certainly need to know (and remember) the names of its neighbour(s), which it can 'learn' simply by ask each neighbour.

Hello, How much are stations allowed to know about their neighbours? They're allowed to know about bus train destination names obviously. The marking rubric says no station can collate information about the whole transport-network. However, are the st...

I managed to get the transperth timetables working, but I can't seem to get the portsinuse to work

I'm going through the getting started page of the project, and after running nc -l 4444 for portsinuse.sh, I can't seem to connect to the localhost 4444. Also, for the buildtransperthtimetables.sh, after making the file executable and running it, it giv...

looking for 2 people to team up for the project. Email me at 233 3 0 t d n . w . d . u o o t i u e s , I c n t s e o c n e t t h o a h s 4 4 A s , f r t e b i d r n p r h i e a l s s , a t r m k n h i e e e u a l n u n n t t...

ANONYMOUS wrote Going OK, so far, thanks. Maximum of 4 per team (stated on our unit's front webpage).

Hey Chris, hope your having a good day. Just wanted to ask you about the maximum number of people allowed for each team on the project just so my team doesn't have to kick anyone out by the time the project instructions are released? Thank you