OIM 210 Study Guide - Final Guide: User Datagram Protocol, Internet Protocol Suite, Net Neutrality

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Operations & Info Management
• Course: OIM 210
• Professor: Ryan Wright

Document Summary

Internet service provider (isp)-an organization or firm that provides access to the. Url (uniform resource locator) -often used interchangeably with web address, urls identify resources on the internet along with the application protocol need to retrieve it. Urls may list the application protocol, host name, domain name, path name, and file name, in that order. Protocol -enables communication by defining the format of data and rules for exchange. The http protocol defines how web browser and web servers communicate and is designed to be independent from the computer"s hardware and operating system. The next part of the url in our diagram holds the host and domain name. Think of the domain name as the name of the network you"re trying to connect to, and think of the host as the computer you"re looking for on that network. Many domains have lots of different hosts. Hypertext markup language (html) - language used to compose web pages.