Introduction To Web Technology
Introduction To Web Technology
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Introduction to Web Technology
Computers connected to the Internet can communicate with one another with
a number of protocols such as HTTP, SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol),
FTP (File Transfer Protocol), IRC (Internet relay chat), IM (instant messaging),
Telnet, and P2P (peer-to-peer).
Dynamic pages have content that can change each time they are
accessed.
All the information is returned as HTML code, so when the page gets to
your browser, all the browser has to do is translate the HTML.
HTML
HTML is a language which is used to create static web pages.
HTML uses bracketed commands called ‘HTML tags’ that are integrated
into a text document.
Open the file with any web browser(Like Internet Explorer, Firefox) to see the
HTML page output.
Basic HTML Tags
HTML
HEAD
BODY
title (page title),
style (rendering style),
link (related documents),
meta (data about the
document),
script (client-side scripting
Example
<html>
<body>
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
Web Browser
A web browser is an application program for retrieving,
presenting and traversing information resources on the World
Wide Web.
An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource
Identifier (URI) and may be a web page, image, video or other
piece of content.
Some examples of web browser:
Internet Explorer
Google Chrome,
Firefox,
Opera,
Safari
Web Server
A Web server is a program or computer machine
that generates and transmits responses to client
requests for Web resources using HTTP protocol.
Every computer on the Internet that contains a
Web site must have a Web server program.
Any computer can be turned into a Web server by
installing server software and connecting the
machine to the Internet.
How Web Servers Work
Some Examples of Web Server
Apache HTTP Server:
The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to as Apache is a web server software program
which gave the initial boost for the growth of the World Wide Web.
In 2009, it became the first web server software to surpass the 100 million website milestone.
The server is aimed at serving a great deal of widely popular modern web platforms/operating
systems such as Unix, Windows, Linux, Solaris, Novell NetWare, FreeBSD, Mac OS X,
Microsoft Windows, OS/2, etc.
IIS is one of the components of Microsoft Windows and is Microsoft's implementation of a web
server.
The protocols supported include HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS & SMTP .
It's estimated that around 25% of all websites utilize IIS.
URL
URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator.
A URL is a formatted text string used by Web
browsers, email clients and other software to
identify a network resource on the Internet.
Network resources are files that can be plain Web
pages, other text documents, graphics, or
programs.
URL..continued
URL strings consist of three parts (substrings):
1. network protocol: Typical URL protocols include
http:// and ftp:// .
2. host name or address: identifies a computer or
other network device. Hosts come from standard Internet
databases such as DNS and can be names or IP
addresses.
3. file or resource location:
These substrings are separated by special
characters as follows:
protocol :// host / location
URL
Example:
In http://www.uneca.org/acs
Protocol
A protocol is a set of rules that govern data
communications.
A protocol defines what is communicated, how it is
communicated, and when it is communicated.
It represents an agreement between the
communicating devices.
Without a protocol, two devices may be connected
but not communicating, just as a person speaking
Portuguese cannot be understood by a person
who speaks only English.
HTTP
HTTP stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol
it is the language of the Web.
• HTTP is a protocol used for communication between web
browsers and web servers.
• When a web page has this prefix, then your links, text, and
pictures should work in your web browser
• HTTP functions as a request-response protocol in the
client-server computing model.
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• A web browser, for example, may be the client and an
application running on a computer hosting a web site may
be the server.
• The client submits an HTTP request message to the
server.
• The server, which provides resources such as HTML files
and other content, or performs other functions on behalf of
the client, returns a response message to the client.
API (Application Programming
Interface )
Application Programming Interface (API) which
constitutes a language and message format is set
of data structures, routines or protocols used by an
application to communicate with other control
program, communication protocol or operating
system. Exampled would be a “Places API” which
is called by many web based applications.
Web Technologies
HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
XML (Extensible Markup Language)
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
JavaScript
Java
VBScript
PHP
C#
ASP
ASP.NET
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