Summary

In this hour, you learned about what goes on as the Web page is being fetched from the server, and you learned a little bit about the HTTP protocol. You also learned how to call a CGI program from a link and pass parameters into the program as well, which can be used with SSI. In addition, you learned how to manipulate the HTTP conversation to perform redirection and to get information about the browser and the server.

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