Transmission

See TCP/IP.

Control

 

Protocol/Internet

 

Protocol

 

UUCP Mapping

UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program. A utility and protocol that allows a UNIX machine to copy files to

Project

another UNIX machine by means of serial lines. The mapping project is an effort to provide a

 

world-wide registry of host names. The current map is posted in the comp.mail.maps newsgroup.

Verisign

A dominant certificate authority on the internet, though many of its certificates are signed as RSA

 

Data Security. Early versions of Microsoft and Netscape browsers had RSA Data Security

 

configured as the only trusted certificate authority. This mandated that users who want to use

 

certificates on the Internet had to obtain them from Verisign and use server software accredited

 

by Verisign. Current versions of the Microsoft and Netscape browsers allow users to add new

 

certificate authorities. As older versions of the browsers are replaced, new certificate authorities

 

(such as Thawte) have emerged.

virtual host

An alias name assigned to an FTP Server.

WAIS

Wide Area Information Servers. A distributed information retrieval system. WAIS offers natural

 

language input, indexed searching, and a relevance feedback mechanism that allows current

 

search results to influence future search results.

Web server

A server process, running at a Web site, that sends out Web pages in response to HTTP requests

 

from remote browsers. See also Apache Web Server.

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