Chapter 1. Apache and the Web

Internet Protocols

The Web has become part of our everyday life. People use the Internet to get weather reports, buy books, read news, and keep in contact with friends via Web e-mail. Web browsers provide a friendly interface to access the information and to hide the complexity of the underlying protocols. Web servers are the programs that provide the information to the Web browsers.

This section describes a number of protocols used by browsers ...

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