CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Html Element, Server-Side, Https

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: CS100
• Professor: Juvenile Delinquency

Document Summary

There are many diferent types of servers on the internet, the most common being a web server. If you upload an html ile named hello. html to your course account correctly, you will be able to view your ile by visiting it at your web page: https://www. student. cs. uwaterloo. ca/~yourusername/hello. html: in this case, the web server is a computer with the name www. student. cs. uwaterloo. ca with the address. This computer is running software that simply waits for an incoming http (or https) request. It answers the request by retrieving the hello. html ile from your public_html folder, and then sending the contents of that ile back to the client that made the request. Typically, the client is a web browser running on a diferent computer than the web server. The html provided by the server is in the same html language that we have already seen in this course. The server"s role is to: respond to http requests and provide iles (e. g. , html pages and pictures: