Summary
Section 26.1 Introduction
Web-based applications create web content for web browser clients.
AJAX helps web-based applications provide the interactivity and responsiveness that users typically expect of desktop applications.
Section 26.2 Simple HTTP Transactions
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) specifies a set of methods and headers that allow clients and servers to interact and exchange information in a uniform and reliable manner.
In its simplest form, a web page is nothing more than an XHTML document containing markup that describes to a web browser how to display and format the document’s information.
XHTML documents can contain hypertext data (hyperlinks) that link to different pages or to other parts of the same page when the ...
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