Summary

You should now have a good understanding of the environment in which the Web operates as well as few technical details about the key technologies of the Internet.

In the next chapter, I will expand on the discussion of protocols and introduce the idea of TCP connections. You will also begin learning about HTTP transactions as I introduce some of the concepts of communication on the Web.

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