Summary
Web systems are hypertext document systems that are relatively new to the computing world.
The fundamental elements of a Web system are the client browser, the network, and a Web server.
A Web application is a Web system that delivers business logic.
HTTP is the primary protocol for communication between clients and servers.
HTTP is a connectionless protocol. Each time a client requests a document from a Web server, a new connection must be established with the server.
As identifiers of network resources, URLs or URIs can reference Web pages, images, applets, and other resources on the network.
Web pages are documents that are requested by the client and delivered by the Web server.
The principal formatting language for Web pages is HTML. It ...
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