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Revision: The World Wide Web (WWW)
- Technology
- a software "browser" (eg Netscape, IE) is used to fetch and
display HTML "Web Pages" from a remote Web server... etc.
- Observed Behaviours[1]
- Status messages include:
- "looking up servername.some.domain.au"
- "Contacting server"
- "10% of 20K...", etc.
- What is happening here?
-
- Simple answer
- magic...
- Slightly less simple answer
- the browser somehow communicates with the remote server "over"
the Internet. How this is achieved is very
complex. In order to understand this complexity, we break
the system into smaller, more tractable and understandable parts,
thereby introducing...
[1]These messages (or
their equivalent) are usually displayed on the browser status line
at the bottom of the window.
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