September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
14h 20m
English
Perhaps the most in-demand style of interface today is for a browser-accessible Web interface. We'll look at specific technologies for creating a Web-based interface in the next few chapters, but right now we'll lay the foundation by looking at two standards upon which all browser technologies are based: HTTP and HTML.
HTTP stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol. Web browsers and Web servers communicate to each other using this protocol. It is usually thought of together with HTML, a standard for marking up documents, which will be covered in the next section. However, HTTP is used today to transfer much more than just simple text documents: video, audio, and all sorts of complex ...
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