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+# Server Lab Assessment
+
+Cory, 
+
+Nice work! The poem server works, though there are a few edge cases causing 
+500 errors--mostly in handling cases where the result is not found. A few 
+thoughts on your answers to questions:
+
+> Another situation it might be useful to run the server on my own computer 
+> where I'm the only client on the same computer is to test whether the 
+> serve works the way it should before deploying it to a remote server or 
+> allowing others elsewhere to access it remotely.
+
+Yes! In fact, apps like Zoom often run small servers locally. When you open a 
+zoom link in an email, your calendar, or a web browser, the link actually
+makes a request from your local machine to the zoom server on the same machine--
+which then kicks zoom into gear and opens up the call. 
+
+> With google docs, I assume every time something is typed the location of the 
+> character typed as well as what was typed is posted as a change to the 
+> document on the server, so a route might be "change." Given that google docs 
+> allows for near-real-time remote collaboration, google docs likely gets the 
+> document extraordinarily frequently to make it appear that changes happen 
+> nearly instantly, so a route might be "show." Such a route might also 
+> simultaneously check if the user has access, as a user whose access is 
+> removed can no longer view or edit the document.
+
+Indeed, real-time collaboration implies that changes are being sent to the 
+server right away. It's not unusual for a webpage (particularly one bloated
+with ads and spyware) to make hundreds of HTTP requests in the course of opening
+a single page--but each request has to send its own headers, and has some 
+other overhead. So real-time collaboration uses a newer protocol called
+WebSockets, which opens up one stream, and continuously sends data back
+and forth. Same with video conferencing. WebRTC is an exciting new protocol
+which makes it much easier to build real-time collaboration into all kinds of
+apps, and to have the streaming go peer-to-peer rather than all through a central
+server.