Near and Future Projects
Near and Future Projects
WWW/CGI Computing - Web Technology Overview
- Browsers have SAME interface on ALL Computers - Clients (such as Mosaic and Netscape) support browsing of hyperlinked documents but have no internal interactive/compute capability
- Servers read HTTP and deliver requested service to client
HTML - Document format supporting hyperlinks HTTP - Protocol defining Interaction between Web servers and Clients MIME - Data format allowing agent-like (extended email) communication CGI -- Standard interface allowing sophisticated server extensions