Web Programming and Internet Technologies: An E-Commerce Approach

Contents

Preface

Typographic and Other Conventions

1   Setting the Scene

1.1   Overview and Objectives

1.2   What Is the Internet?

1.3   What Is the World Wide Web (WWW)?

1.4   What Is Meant by a Client-Server Architecture?

1.5   How Do Web Browsers and Web Servers Fit the Client-Server Model?

1.6   How Do Web Browsers and Web Servers Communicate?

1.6.1 Web Protocols and Layered Communication Architectures

1.6.2 Web Addresses and Address Resolution via DNS

1.6.3 URLs, URNs, and URIs

1.7   A Real-World E-Commerce Website

1.8   What Are the Technologies We Will Discuss?

1.9   Summary

1.10 Quick Questions to Test Your Basic Knowledge

1.11 Short Exercises to Improve Your Basic Understanding

1.12 Exercises on the Parallel Project

1.13 What Else You ...