Wilde’s WWW: Technical Foundations of the World Wide Web

✍ Scribed by Erik Wilde (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 570
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The World Wide Web is undoubtedly the development of the decade in the media world. Since its beginnings in 1990, the WWW has evolved from a rather simple model of resource names (URL), a transfer protocol (HTTP), and a language for the description of interconnected information pages (HTML), to a far more complex infrastructure. This book gives a thorough technical description of all relevant WWW developments up to the time of writing, including the latest versions of the transfer protocol (HTTP/1.1) and description language (HTML 4.0), the foundations of the description language (SGML and its upcoming variant XML), style sheets (CSS1), server issues (SSL, CGI, and Apache as an example of a Web server), and some issues that will be of increasing importance in future (MathML, VRML, PNG).

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Fundamentals....Pages 7-32
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Universal Resource Identifier (URI)....Pages 35-51
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)....Pages 53-135
Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)....Pages 137-171
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)....Pages 173-262
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)....Pages 265-323
Extensible Markup Language (XML)....Pages 325-373
Scripting and Programming....Pages 375-385
HTTP Servers....Pages 387-420
Miscellaneous....Pages 421-448
Related Technology....Pages 449-461
Back Matter....Pages 263-595

✦ Subjects

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Multimedia Information Systems; Information Systems and Communication Service