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Learn Mac OS X Snow Leopard
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Learn Mac OS X Snow Leopard

by Mike Lee, Scott Meyers
September 2010
Beginner content levelBeginner
632 pages
17h 41m
English
Apress
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Chapter 20. Working with Remote Servers and Networks

Chances are you connect to remote servers and networks every day without really thinking about it. When you open your favorite web browser to read the news, check the weather, or catch up on the blogosphere, you're sending out packets of information requesting data. Those packets adhere to a particular protocol, in this case the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, and they traverse networks around the globe seeking the particular port at the particular address of the particular server that has your requested content.

The server will consider your request and, if all goes well, package the information you've requested and send it flying through the vast network of networks until it ends up back at your ...

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