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Sumita Arora Solved Exercise of Web Application Development

The document discusses web application development and defines key concepts: - HTTP is a protocol used to communicate between browsers and servers. A URL contains the server address and file path. - A web browser downloads and displays web pages by communicating with web servers via protocols like HTTP. Common browsers are Firefox and Internet Explorer. - A web server stores and sends web pages and files to clients. Examples are Apache and IIS. - The client/server model involves a browser interacting with a remote server using protocols to accurately transfer data through requests and responses.

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Sumita Arora Solved Exercise of Web Application Development

The document discusses web application development and defines key concepts: - HTTP is a protocol used to communicate between browsers and servers. A URL contains the server address and file path. - A web browser downloads and displays web pages by communicating with web servers via protocols like HTTP. Common browsers are Firefox and Internet Explorer. - A web server stores and sends web pages and files to clients. Examples are Apache and IIS. - The client/server model involves a browser interacting with a remote server using protocols to accurately transfer data through requests and responses.

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WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

1 In the URL, http://www.mycorp.com/pr/master.htm, what is the http component?


Ans. http is the type of protocol.
2 In the URL, http://www.mycorp.com/pr/master.htm, what is the www.mycorp.com component?
Ans. www.mycorp.com is the address of server.
3 In the URL, http://www.mycorp.com/pr/master.htm, what is the /pr/master.htmcomponent?
Ans. /pr/master.htm is the path of the file master.htm.
4 what do you understand by a
(i) Web browser (ii) Web server?
Ans. (i) Web browser A Web browser is a program that your computer runs to communicate with web
servers on the Internet, which enables it to download and display the web pages that you request.
(ii) Web server A Web server is simply a computer with an Internet connection that runs software
designed to send out HTML, DHTML, XML or Java based pages and other file formats (such as
multimedia files).
5 How is a file communicated to another computer on Internet?
Ans. File is communicated to another computer on Internet by File Transfer Protocol.
6 What is WWW? How does it function?
Ans. World Wide Web is an Internet system used for creating, displaying, linking hypertext or multimedia files.
7 A web browser and a web server is an application of client/server computing concept. Comment on this
statement.
Ans. Your computer runs software called the client and interacts with another software known as the server
located at a remote computer. The client is usually a browser such as Internet Explorer, Netscape
Navigator or Mozilla. Browsers interact with the server using a set of instruction called protocols. These
protocols help in the accurate transfer of data through requests from a browser and responses from the
server.
8 Discuss the functioning of a web browser and a web server. Also give some examples of web browsers
and web servers.
Ans. Web Browser
A web browser is a program that your computer runs to communicate with Web servers on the
Internet, which enables it to download and display the Web pages that you request.
At a minimum, a web browser must understand HTML and display text.
Examples of web browsers are Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox.
Web Server
Serving Web pages
Running gateway programs and returning output
Controlling access to the server
Monitoring and logging server access statistics
Examples of web servers are Apache web server, Microsoft Internet Information server, Netscape
Enterprise Web Server.
9 What is a URL? What are its components? Example required.
Ans. Uniform Resources Locator. This is the full unique address of a file, such as a web page, on the internet.
URL look like this:
type://address/path
Where type: specifies the type of server in which the file is located, address is the address of server, and
path tells the location of file on the server.
Example http://encycle.msn.com/getinfo/styles.asp
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