• 1. Internet Techniques and Web Formats
  • 1.1. Internet
  • 1.2. World Wide Web
    • 1.2.1. Terms
    • 1.2.2. URL
    • 1.2.3. HTTP
    • 1.2.4. Common Gateway Interface
    • 1.2.5. Unit-Summary
  • 1.3. Browser, Plugins and Applets
  • 1.4. Client-Server-Model
  • 1.5. Web Graphics Formats
  • 1.6. Self Assessment
  • 1.7. Summary
  • 1.8. Glossary
  • 1.9. Bibliography
  • 1.10. Metadata

1.2.5. Unit-Summary

The World Wide Web (WWW) is a vast collection of electronic documents each composed of a linked set of pages. The documents are stored in files on many thousands of computers that are distributed around the global Internet.
Web browsers allow a user to access the Internet easily. Entering an URL in the browser's address bar starts the request for the wanted homepage. Using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol the request is sent to the server which sends back the HTML page also using HTTP.
Common Gateway Interfaces take action on the server side when a Web Page contains a form . The Common Gateway Interface processes the received information and respondes the server, which forwards the information to the user.

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