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    Project and Seminar Lab Services of WWW: Submitted by Ashik Shukoor V Jos Rapheal

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    The document discusses the World Wide Web (WWW) and how it works. It can be summarized as: The World Wide Web (WWW) is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet using URLs and hyperlinks. Web browsers make HTTP requests to web servers to fetch and display web pages, which contain HTML markup and additional resources like images. Web pages are dynamically updated using JavaScript and Ajax. The "www" subdomain is commonly used for web servers but is not required. HTTPS provides encryption for secure web transactions.

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    The document discusses the World Wide Web (WWW) and how it works. It can be summarized as: The World Wide Web (WWW) is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet using URLs and hyperlinks. Web browsers make HTTP requests to web servers to fetch and display web pages, which contain HTML markup and additional resources like images. Web pages are dynamically updated using JavaScript and Ajax. The "www" subdomain is commonly used for web servers but is not required. HTTPS provides encryption for secure web transactions.

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    Project and Seminar Lab Services of WWW: Submitted by Ashik Shukoor V Jos Rapheal

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    PROJECT AND SEMINAR LAB SERVICES OF WWW

    SUBMITTED BY ASHIK SHUKOOR V JOS RAPHEAL

    The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3, commonly known as the Web or the "Information Superhighway"), is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia, and navigate between them via hyperlinks.

    The terms Internet and World Wide Web are often used in everyday speech without much distinction. However, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not one and the same. The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks. In contrast, the Web is one of the services that runs on the Internet. It is a collection of text documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs, usually accessed by web browsers from web servers. In short, the Web can be thought of as an application "running" on the Internet. Viewing a web page on the World Wide Web normally begins either by typing the URL of the page into a web browser or by following a hyperlink to that page or resource. The web browser then initiates a series of communication messages, behind the scenes, in order to fetch and display it. As an example, consider accessing a page with the URLhttp://example.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web . First, the browser resolves the server-name portion of the URL (example.org) into an Internet Protocol address using the globally distributed database known as the Domain Name System (DNS); this lookup returns an IP address such as 208.80.152.2. The browser then requests the resource by sending an HTTP request across the Internet to the computer at that particular address. It makes the request to a particular application port in the underlying Internet Protocol Suite so that the computer receiving the request can distinguish an HTTP request from other network protocols it may be servicing such as e-mail delivery; the HTTP protocol normally uses port 80. The content of the HTTP request can be as simple as the two lines of text
    GET /wiki/World_Wide_Web HTTP/1.1 Host: example.org

    The computer receiving the HTTP request delivers it to web server software listening for requests on port 80. If the web server can fulfill the request it sends an HTTP response back to the browser indicating success, which can be as simple as
    HTTP/1.0 200 OK Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

    followed by the content of the requested page. The Hypertext Markup Language for a basic web page looks like
    <html> <head> <title>Example.org The World Wide Web</title> </head> <body> <p>The World Wide Web, abbreviated as WWW and commonly known ...</p> </body> </html>

    The web browser parses the HTML, interpreting the markup (<title>, <p> for paragraph, and such) that surrounds the words in order to draw the text on the screen. Many web pages use HTML to reference the URLs of other resources such as images, other embedded media, scripts that affect page behavior, and Cascading Style Sheets that affect page layout. The browser will make additional HTTP requests to the web server for these other Internet media types. As it receives their content from the web server, the browser progressively renders the page onto the screen as specified by its HTML and these additional resources.

    Linking
    Most web pages contain hyperlinks to other related pages and perhaps to downloadable files, source documents, definitions and other web resources. In the underlying HTML, a hyperlink looks like
    <a href="http://example.org/wiki/Main_Page">Example.org, a free encyclopedia</a>

    Such a collection of useful, related resources, interconnected via hypertext links is dubbed a web of information. Publication on the Internet created whatTim Berners-Lee first called the WorldWideWeb (in its original CamelCase, which was subsequently discarded) in November 1990. The hyperlink structure of the WWW is described by the webgraph: the nodes of the webgraph correspond to the web pages (or URLs) the directed edges between them to the hyperlinks. Over time, many web resources pointed to by hyperlinks disappear, relocate, or are replaced with different content. This makes hyperlinks obsolete, a phenomenon referred to in some circles as link rot and the hyperlinks affected by it are often called dead links. The ephemeral

    nature of the Web has prompted many efforts to archive web sites. The Internet Archive, active since 1996, is one of the best-known efforts.

    Dynamic updates of web pages


    JavaScript is a scripting language that was initially developed in 1995 by Brendan Eich, then of Netscape, for use within web pages. The standardized version is ECMAScript. To overcome some of the limitations of the page-by-page model described above, some web applications also use Ajax(asynchronous JavaScript and XML). JavaScript is delivered with the page that can make additional HTTP requests to the server, either in response to user actions such as mouse-clicks or based on lapsed time. The server's responses are used to modify the current page rather than creating a new page with each response. Thus, the server must provide only limited, incremental information. Since multiple Ajax requests can be handled at the same time, users can interact with a page even while data is being retrieved. Some web applications regularly poll the server to ask whether new information is available.

    WWW prefix
    Many domain names used for the World Wide Web begin with www because of the longstanding practice of naming Internet hosts (servers) according to the services they provide. The hostnamefor a web server is often www, in the same way that it may be ftp for an FTP server, and news or nntp for a USENET news server. These host names appear as Domain Name System or [domain name server](DNS) subdomain names, as in www.example.com. The use of 'www' as a subdomain name is not required by any technical or policy standard; indeed, the first ever web server was called nxoc01.cern.ch and many web sites exist without it. According to Paolo Palazzi who worked at CERN along with Tim Berners-Lee, the popular use of 'www' subdomain was accidental; the World Wide Web project page was intended to be published at www.cern.ch while info.cern.ch was intended to be the CERN home page, however the dns records were never switched, and the practice of prepending 'www' to an institution's website domain name was subsequently copied. Many established websites still use 'www', or they invent other subdomain names such as 'www2', 'secure', etc. Many such web servers are set up such that both the domain root (e.g., example.com) and the www subdomain (e.g., www.example.com) refer to the same site; others require one form or the other, or they may map to different web sites. The use of a subdomain name is useful for load balancing incoming web traffic by creating a CNAME record that points to a cluster of web servers. Since, currently, only a subdomain can be used in a CNAME, the same result cannot be achieved by using the bare domain root.

    When a user submits an incomplete domain name to a web browser in its address bar input field, some web browsers automatically try adding the prefix "www" to the beginning of it and possibly ".com", ".org" and ".net" at the end, depending on what might be missing. For example, entering 'microsoft' may be transformed to http://www.microsoft.com/ and 'openoffice' tohttp://www.openoffice.org. This feature started appearing in early versions of Mozilla Firefox, when it still had the working title 'Firebird' in early 2003, from an earlier practice in browsers such as Lynx. It is reported that Microsoft was granted a US patent for the same idea in 2008, but only for mobile devices. Use of the www prefix is declining as Web 2.0 web applications seek to brand their domain names and make them easily pronounceable..As the mobile web grows in popularity, services likeGmail.com, MySpace.com, Facebook.com, Bebo.com and Twitter.com are most often discussed without adding the www to the domain (or the .com).

    Specifiers: http and https


    The scheme specifiers (http:// or https://) in URIs refer to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol and to HTTP Secure, respectively, and so define the communication protocol to be used for the request and response. The HTTP protocol is fundamental to the operation of the World Wide Web; the added encryption layer in HTTPS is essential when confidential information such as passwords or banking information are to be exchanged over the public Internet. Web browsers usually prepend the scheme to URLs too, if omitted.

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