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
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Author: Tarek Abdelzaher
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