The World Wide Web

08/09/98


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The World Wide Web

Clients and Servers

Multiprotocol Clients

Uniform Resource Locators (URL’s)

Basic Hypertext

HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol

MIME Content Types

Filename extensions

Providing Information in HTML

Hyperlinks in HTML

Writing HTML

Not all browsers are the same

A picture is worth 1000 words...

External Viewers

Active Maps

Active maps and imagemap

Active Maps the easy way

WWW is much more than information retrieval...

Common Gateway Interface (CGI)

Returning data from CGI scripts

Not just a consumer of information...

Our Pub Form...

Form Processing

Access Control

Access Control Lists

Caching Proxy Servers

Proxy Servers

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Author: James Cowan

Email: jon@cs.ucl.ac.uk

Home Page: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/jon