AJAX Geography project

Supervisor: Amichai ShulmanStudents :

Vitaly Timofeev Eyal Shemesh

Advanced security log analysis◦ Visualization of the info◦ Various geographical statistics◦ Comparing statistics to the general data

Trying to save internal data in the organization

Simple requirements from the clients Simple update mechanism

Project goal

2 Servers, 1 Client◦ General server - traditional server side◦ Data server – server inside the client organization◦ Client page – HTML page on the Data server

working as web application Technology

◦ General server – Tomcat web server running JSP as server language + MySQL as DB engine

◦ Data server – Some web server (we use Tomcat + MySQL)

◦ Client side – HTML + JavaScript (using AJAX)

System architecture

Client Organization Internet

System architecture

Data ServerGeneral Server

Client page Google Maps

Requirements, answers and pitfalls

Trying to save internal data in the organization

Simple requirements from clients

Simple update mechanism

Client side as a simple HTML

page

There is not too much thing you

can do?

No requirements for specific Data

server architecture

How we will get the needed

data?

We don’t want to update the

page on all data servers!

The solutionThere is not too much thing you

can do with HTML?

How we will get the needed

data?

We don’t want to update the

page on all data servers!

We will use Dynamic HTML

(JavaScript)

We will use AJAX (or AJAX like) to communicate

with the servers

The client page will include only

reference to startup script

Cross Domain security policy!

Geographical IP mapping - MaxMind◦ GeoLite Country and GeoLite city services◦ Free to use◦ Worldwide coverage◦ Accuracy 99.3% on a country level◦ Accuracy 76% on a city level

Displaying to the user – Google Maps◦ Free to use◦ AJAX communications without server side◦ Customizable environment

Geographical services we use

IP mapping – you give an IP and we will display it’s location on the map

Group IP mapping – you give us an IP group and we will display the group on the map with country and city statistics of the group

Radius queries – provide us a point on a map and radius and we will display you all the events in the circle that we know about them

Time tracking – provide us log with timings and we will give you a trace of the places in the log

Services we give

IP type resolving – give us an IP list and we will return you the list which of them are known to be anonymous proxies

Statistics – statistics we give about IP groups are shown in a graphical manner (charts or pies)

Client dependent service types – every client get the services that his data server know to process

Services we give

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