ENVS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Web Server

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Environmental Science
• Course: ENVS 2100
• Professor: Rainham

Document Summary

Way of formatting things to put on the internet; creativity. Smtp: simple mail transfer protocol (microsoft outlook for ex. ) A set of html pages accessible using the http protocol. Your browser connects to a web server using http protocol. Web server fetches html web page and sends the html to your browser. Your browser turns the html page in to a nice-looking page on your screen. Computer program which is used to view a web page. Hyperlink detection and moving from one document to another. Text files that contain hyperlinks and markups. Html instructions that dictate how the web page is displayed. Each web browser interprets html in it"s own way. But pages with advanced elements like multimedia and scripting. Elements: identify different parts of an html page by using tags. Use elements to describe every piece of text on web pages. Made up of tags and content between tags (ex. Attributes: information about the instance of the element.