HELP! * GREY=local LOCAL HTML version of Foils prepared April 4,1995

Foil 40 Web Software Technologies and Standards I

From Webserver General Description -- January 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

Clients
  • NCSA Mosaic and Commercial Versions
  • Netscape
  • Others include Gopher, Cello, Viola, and IBM / Microsoft browsers embedded in PC operating systems
Servers
  • The CERN Server was first but
  • The NCSA HTTP Server is small and optimized for high network load
  • Others include Plexus which is a PERL based Server
Protocols
  • URL -- Universal Resource Locator -- A uniform world-wide addressing mode for computing resources
  • HTTP -- Hypertext Transport Protocol -- A query script sent from browser to server which contains both the URL and a method which is currently GET or POST
  • HTML -- Hypertext Markup Language -- Hypermedia document description language which is sent from Server to Client
  • CGI -- Common Gateway Interface -- is a uniform mechanism to escape from Web Server to further programs on the server side



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