Discussion

  1. What are the advantages of a connectionless protocol, such as HTTP? What are the disadvantages?

  2. Discuss the differences in the main client tier—what happens exclusively in the browser—and the presentation tier—the handling of URL resource requests—paradigms of operation?

  3. What types of side effects might you expect to see in a Web application when the client browser's Back and Forward buttons are used? How might bookmarked pages affect the application?

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