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Web Programming

Notes Some of the basic features your Web server should have:
 HTTP 1.1 Compliance: The benefits include persistent connection, pipelining, and caching
directives for performance, host headers for multiple Web sites.

 Browser Neutral Host Header Support: The Web server should be able to host multiple
Web sites using a single IP address. This will also help Web browsers that do not support
host headers.
 Discussion Groups: The Web server should include support for creating local discussion
groups for a single server using the NNTP protocol.

 Mail enabled administrators should be able to receive mail driven by events on the Web
server.
Other features of Web server include:

 Enhanced integrated set-up and administration such as Web based administration,
Website operators, per Website bandwidth throttling, and configuration replication.
 Reliable Web application development and deployment which includes transactional
active server pages, crash protection, crash recovery, integrated fail over clustering support,
component load/unload.

 Standards based data access like database connectivity.
 Integrated authentication and security with support for integrated certificate server, domain
blocking.

Rich content management and control like integrated indexing and searching, content expiration,
document footers, custom errors, custom headers, one-to-one content replication, redirects,
complete and comprehensive documentation.

The Client Side

While the server side of the web stores and servers the in-coming requests, the requests are
made to the server by a client software (machine). The client side runs on a local machine and
may have some processing capabilities. The Internet browsers are one class of such client side
software, e-mail clients are another.

Task Give the answers in one line.
1. What is web browser?
2. Define Domain name system.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:

4. Text and images on a web page normally designed to provide ………………… to other
web pages at the same or different website.
5. Browsers also provide in accessing information provided by web servers in …………………
networks or content in file systems.

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