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Wilde’s WWW

Technical Foundations of the World Wide Web

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Erik Wilde

    1. International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, USA

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  • A solid reference work on the World Wide Web, giving the practicioner comprehensive details of how it works Firmly anchored technical description of current WWW definitions and standards Presents the most probable future trends in WWW technical development

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Erik Wilde
      Pages 1-5

  3. Fundamentals

    1. Fundamentals

      • Erik Wilde
      Pages 7-32

  4. Basics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. Universal Resource Identifier (URI)

      • Erik Wilde
      Pages 35-51

    3. Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

      • Erik Wilde
      Pages 53-135

    4. Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)

      • Erik Wilde
      Pages 137-171

    5. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

      • Erik Wilde
      Pages 173-262

  5. Advanced

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-263
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    2. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

      • Erik Wilde
      Pages 265-323

    3. Extensible Markup Language (XML)

      • Erik Wilde
      Pages 325-373

    4. Scripting and Programming

      • Erik Wilde
      Pages 375-385

    5. HTTP Servers

      • Erik Wilde
      Pages 387-420

    6. Miscellaneous

      • Erik Wilde
      Pages 421-448

    7. Related Technology

      • Erik Wilde
      Pages 449-461

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 263-595
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What is the difference between a URL and a URI? How does HTTP fulfill its task? Why do we need XML? What is it, and will it eventually replace HTML? This book gives answers to these questions and a chore of others that may be asked by attentive inhabitants of cyberspace. The book is, of course, not just a glossary of abbreviations and frequently used terms. It is rather a comprehensive and still succinct presentation of the technology used in the World Wide Web. It is surprising to note that, even though hundreds of books have been published that discuss the Web, there have been none, so far, to thoroughly explain the inner workings of this popular Internet application, which is so simple to use and yet so complex when it comes to really understand what is going on inside. The target audience of this book is perhaps best described by how it was first used by the author himself: A draft version was chosen as the supporting text for a class of practitioners, who attended a continuing education course on WWW technology. These were people who knew what the Web is, and how it may be used for business, but needed to know how the technology works. During the planning for this course, the author found that no suitable book was on the market, and decided to write one himself.

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  • International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, USA

    Erik Wilde

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