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Foil 119 Key points in Web Technology

From Full Relational Database HPDC-4 Presentation HPDC-4 Tutorial/CPS616 Spring95 -- August 1, Pentagon City Virginia. by Gang Cheng Marek Podgorny (Geoffrey Fox) * See also color IMAGE

Internet as the major vehicle in networking industry
Driving force: information access and dissemination
WWW: Internet navigation and multimedia information access --- a killer networking application
Main WWW components today:
  • HTTP: the transport protocol
  • HTML: the makeup language
  • CGI: an interface to extend HTTP and HTML
  • Fill-Out Form: a set of HTML constructs to allow clients passing run-time input data to server through GUI interface
Client-server as the communication model
(Flat hierarchical UNIX) File system as the major file (data) management system
Focus on transparent networking navigation and a graphical user-interface for hypertext-based information dissemination


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