December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
12h 2m
English
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Introduction
The Web is fundamentally a very simple idea. It consists of Web servers that accept requests from Web clients for pieces of information called Web objects. The interaction between Web clients and servers occurs by means of standard protocols, typically HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Web objects can form relationships that allow clients to download related objects together, by embedding one object into another, or allow users to move easily from one object to another, by defining links, also known as hyperlinks, between objects. These relationships among objects are specified by using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Chapters 4 and 5 describe aspects of HTTP and HTML relevant to this book.
Any computer or device on the Internet ...