Iomega Network Device manual Web Http Service, World-Wide Web Server

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Web (HTTP) Service

The hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) is a communications protocol designed to transfer hypertext documents between computers over the World Wide Web (the Web). HTTP defines what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands.

Section Topics

This section contains the following topics:

n“World-Wide Web Server” on page 83

n“Network Protocol Overview: HTTP” on page 84

n“HTTPS Creating a Secure Connection” on page 85

World-Wide Web Server

The Web is a network within the Internet consisting of:

1)servers that provide information in hypertext format, and 2) clients that relay user input to the server, which displays information on the servers in the user-specified format. While the FTP server and Gopher server present information in a hierarchical directory structure, Web information is presented in pages. A page can be an index or a document. Pages have hypertext entries, like those in Microsoft Windows Help files, that are linked to other Web pages. (A link can connect users to a page on any of the thousands of WEB servers, and can also connect users to other kinds of Internet resources.) Users access information, or navigate through the Internet, by selecting highlighted words (links) in the documents, including indexes, that are shared on WEB servers.

The commands used by the Web are defined in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

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