The Architecture of the World Wide Web

10/2/98


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Table of Contents

The Architecture of the World Wide Web

The Architecture of the World Wide Web

Top-level View of the World Wide Web

Top-level View of the Corporate Intranet

Networking Basics

Background on the Internet

Networking Basic Definitions

Networking Standards: OSI Layers

Simplified communication protocol model

The TCP/IP protocol suite

Typical message formats

Networking

Communications Issues

Networking Speeds

Internet 2

Open Standards

Internet Documents: Drafts, Memos and Standards

Internet Documents - Examples

Message-passing Protocols

Internet E-Mail (RFC-822)

Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME)

MIME - "Content-Type" Header Field

MIME - Base Content Types

MIME - Base Content Types, continued

Web Services - HTTP Protocol

Applications based on information services typically use a Client/Server Architecture

The World Wide Web is a collection of clients and servers called browsers and Web sites

HTTP - Hypertext Transport Protocol

HTTPD - HTTP Daemon

URL - Uniform Resource Locator

Web Links can go to other Internet Services

HTTP - How does it work?

HTTP - GET Request Example

HTTP - Reply Example

HTTP - POST Request Example

Common Gateway Interface (CGI) - an introduction

Three-Tier Web Architecture

Author: Neil Jasper

Email: gcf@npac.syr.edu

Home Page: http://www.npac.syr.edu