ASP.NET - State Management, Configuration, Installation

System for notifications about changes on web sites

• Idea of the system: webmasters want to add to their web pages possibility to automatically notify by email all interested users that something was changed
  • Imagine that you could subscribe for notifications about changes on AWP web page, to know when results are published
• Task: create a system which will allow to add such functionality to any web page based on HTML
• Required functionality:
  • Three user roles:
    • Administrator
      • password protected
      • can add and remove webmasters
    • Webmaster
      • password protected
      • can add and remove web pages
        • after adding a web page to the system piece of HTML code which must be added to the page by the webmaster is generated
        • everything what will be needed by the user to subscribe for notifications must be in this HTML code
      • can see list of email addresses of users which subscribed for notifications for each web page
    • User
      • can subscribe for notifications on any web page modified by a webmaster by adding piece of HTML code generated by the system
      • receives emails with information that a web page was changed
        • there must be a link in each email which will allow the user to unsubscribe from notifications about changes on this web page
• Technical requirements:
  • the system must store the last version of each web page and compare it to the current version (this checking must be done periodically); only HTML code must be checked
  • piece of HTML code generated by the system must be good for any technology based on HTML (do not assume, that all web pages will use ASP.NET)
  • if you will use regular SMTP without securing you have to find a mail server which will allow to send emails using this way
    • better solution (for EXTRA POINTS) : find and use free (neither evaluation nor demo) .NET component for sending emails using secure STMP

• Estimated points:
  • protecting using passwords: 1.5
  • adding and removing webmasters: 1.0
  • adding and removing web pages: 1.0
  • generating HTML code for web pages: 1.5
  • listing subscribers: 1.0
  • subscribing for notifications: 1.0
  • checking for changes on web pages: 2.0
  • sending emails: 1.0
  • Extra points for using secure SMTP: 2.0
  • Caution: The future correction must be enabled over the internet using any public web server hosting ASP.NET (it can be neither desktop machine nor any of MiNI Faculty's web servers); the appropriate link should be delivered with the correction source