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Introduction to Architecture of World Wide Web

Given by Nancy J. McCracken at CPS406/606 on Fall Semester 98. Foils prepared October 2 98

The World Wide Web (WWW) (the Web) is a hyperlinked collection of documents and programs that reside on computers all over the world, linked by the Internet.
This talk will show the underlying components and mechanisms that make the Web work.
  • Network protocols based on TCP/IP and a common Domain Name Service
  • Message-passing protocols based on MIME
  • Web Server architecture based on the HTTP protocol
This works on a world-wide basis is because these protocols are based on Open Standards which have been implemented by many vendors on a variety of machines. The Web software structure is strictly non- proprietary, while allowing proprietary pieces to fit in where needed.
The same architecture and software that makes the Web work is also suitable for implementing distributed applications between hetereogeneous machines and networks. This makes the architecture attractive for the corporate Intranet as well.

Table of Contents for Introduction to Architecture of World Wide Web

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1 The Architecture of the World Wide Web
2 The Architecture of the World Wide Web
3 Top-level View of the World Wide Web
4 Top-level View of the Corporate Intranet
5 Networking Basics
6 Background on the Internet
7 Networking Basic Definitions
8 Networking Standards: OSI Layers
9 Simplified communication protocol model
10 The TCP/IP protocol suite
11 Typical message formats
12 Networking
13 Communications Issues
14 Networking Speeds
15 Internet 2
16 Open Standards
17 Internet Documents: Drafts, Memos and Standards
18 Internet Documents - Examples
19 Message-passing Protocols
20 Internet E-Mail (RFC-822)
21 Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME)
22 MIME - "Content-Type" Header Field
23 MIME - Base Content Types
24 MIME - Base Content Types, continued
25 Web Services - HTTP Protocol
26 Applications based on information services typically use a Client/Server Architecture
27 The World Wide Web is a collection of clients and servers called browsers and Web sites
28 HTTP - Hypertext Transport Protocol
29 HTTPD - HTTP Daemon
30 URL - Uniform Resource Locator
31 Web Links can go to other Internet Services
32 HTTP - How does it work?
33 HTTP - GET Request Example
34 HTTP - Reply Example
35 HTTP - POST Request Example
36 Common Gateway Interface (CGI) - an introduction
37 Three-Tier Web Architecture
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