Introduction to the World Wide Web

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Table of Contents

Introduction; The World Wide Web

Web Architecture

Performance Characterization

Content Types

Fetching Multiple Objects

Dynamic Content

Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Scripts

Fast CGI

Active Server Pages (ASPs)

The Protocol: HTTP

Simple HTTP Request and Reply

Example: “Manually Connecting to a Web Server”

Persistent Connections

Web Caching

Types of Web Caching

Caching Policies

LFU

LRU

Cache Consistency Management

Time-to-live & Conditional GET

Cache Invalidation

Invalidation Contracts

The Future Trends

Author: Tarek Abdelzaher