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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