IASC 1P01 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Top-Level Domain, Internet Protocol
18 Jan 2017
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Protocol- well-defined keywords/sequences that allow two parties the ability to know how to communicate. Server- computer/program that waits for requests and fulfills them once received. Client- computer/program that makes requests of a server. Sometimes a program can act as a client and a server (eg. common peer-to-peer models) Based o(cid:374) i(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:374)et p(cid:396)oto(cid:272)ol (the (cid:862)ip(cid:863) pa(cid:396)t of (cid:862)tcp/ip(cid:863) If your computers want to talk to another computer, the ip suite will allow that to happen. A lot of applications that make use of the internet have nothing to do with the web. Internet based messaging apps do not rely on it. Internet video streaming can be web based or not. One protocol applications can use http (hypertext transfer protocol) Web servers host multiple text documents (usually written with some standard. Web browsers can request documents through http: renders as a web page, can request another document if the rendered documents contain links to other pages.
