October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
1648 pages
47h 34m
English
In my overview of file and message transfer protocols in Chapter 71, I said that the World Wide Web was "almost certainly" the most important TCP/IP application. If anything, I was probably understating the case. The Web is not only quite clearly the most important TCP/IP application today, it is arguably the single most important application in the history of networking, and perhaps even computing as a whole.
This may sound a little melodramatic, but consider what the Web has done in the decade or so that it has been around. It has transformed not only how internetworks are used, but in many ways, it has also ...
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