Chapter 28. The World Wide Web

28.1 A simple web-client, web-server interaction

28.2 Naming web pages

28.3 Communication using HTTP

28.4 Document representation

28.5 Executing programs at server and client

28.6 Security

28.7 Concurrency control

28.8 Scalability issues

28.9 Web-based middleware: XML and SOAP

28.10 Summary

The internet has existed in one form or another for decades, based on research in packet switching in the 1960s. Donald Davies of the National Physical Laboratory, UK, conceived the idea in 1965, coined the term 'packet switching' in 1966 and led a team that built a packet-switched network. The internet, as we know it today, has grown gradually since that time. The World Wide Web (henceforth 'the web') came into use in the early ...

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