Web Technologies

Introduction

Wasif Hamdani
 About me
Syed Wasif Abbas Hamdani
(syed.wasif@szabist-isb.edu.pk)
Education:
● MS CS from NUST (01-01-2019)
● M. Sc. CS from Quaid-i-Azam University (21-03-2011)

Experience: 08 years in software industry, 05 years in defense sector, 02 years

research in cyber security, IoT security

Research Area: Cyber Security, Network Security, IoT, Computer Security,

Distributed Systems, Trust Management, Security and Privacy

Technical Skills: Mobile Development (Android), Software Development (C#.NET,

Python), Databases (NoSQL, RDBMS)

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 About you?

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 Class Rules

• Mobile/Smart Phone not allowed

• Always come prepared in class
• Never hesitate to ask questions

* You will lose class participation marks if you:

– repeatedly make noise
– behave impolitely
– not punctual
– do not prepare previous lecture

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 Assessment Criteria
• Max 3 Quizzes (15 marks) *Announced*
– MCQs or subjective
– Minus 5 marks if caught cheating

• Max 3 Assignments (15 marks)

– Evaluation criteria will be announced
– Minus 5 marks if plagiarism found

• Mid Term (30 marks)

• Finals (40 marks)

*Class participation*
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 Internet?

• It is a world-wide resource, accessible to all of

the humankind.

• The global system of interconnected computer

networks that uses the Internet protocol
suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between
networks and devices.

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 What Else?

• Enables users located at far-way locations, to

easily share information with each other, located
all over the world.

• Enables users to easily communicate with

friends/family/colleagues etc. living around the
world.

• Enables the users to operate and run programs

on computers remotely.
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 Who runs the Internet?

Who owns it?

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 No one Owns it.
It has no formal management
organization.

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 History

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 History

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 History

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Uses of the Internet
 Uses of the Internet

• Mail
• Job Searching
• Online Booking
• Online Banking
• Social Networking
• Constructive Communication
• Uses of the Internet in Research
• Use of the Internet for Online Shopping
• Uses of the internet in Effective Education
 Uses of the Internet

• Google Map
• Video Conference
• Advertising Product
• Forums and Q & A Sites
• Order Food and Medicine Online
• Real-Time Updates (Careem, Uber)
• Uses of the internet in Internet Marketing
• Uses of the Internet for playing Online Games
 What is The Web?

• World Wide Web aka. ‘The Web’ is a way of

exchanging information between computers on
the Internet.

• A network of pages containing images, text and

sound, etc. which can be viewed using browser
software.

• Browser: A software application for accessing

information on the Web.
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 Web Technologies?
• Since computers can’t communicate with each
other like the way people do, instead they
require codes.

• Web technologies are the markup languages

and multimedia packages computers use to
communicate.

• Browsers (Chrome, Firefox), Programming

languages (Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python),
Protocols (HTTP), Data formats (XML, JSON).
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 Web Components

• Web Page: A document which can be displayed

in a web browser e.g. Google Chrome, Firefox.

• Web Site: A collection of related web pages and

associated items which are grouped together.

• Web Server: A computer that hosts a website on

the Internet and delivers web pages on client’s
request.

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 Web Components

• Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): A sequence

of characters that identifies a logical or physical
resource.

• Universal Resource Locator (URL): URI which

specifies the location.

• Universal Resource Name (URN): URI which

specifies the name.

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 URI, URL, URN

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 URI, URL, URN

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 How to access the Internet?
• Many schools and businesses have direct access
to the Internet using special high-speed
communication lines and equipment.

• Students and employees can access through the

organization’s networks or through their own
personal devices.

• Another way to access the Internet is through

Internet Service Provider (ISP).
 Internet Service Provider (ISP)

• A company that provides Internet access to

companies, families, and even mobile users, etc. 

- Nayatel, PTCL, Jazz Super 4G Wingle, Zong 4g Bolt

• ISPs use fiber-optics, satellite, copper wire, and

other forms to provide Internet access to its
customers.
 Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
• The public files on the web servers are ordinary
text files, much like the files used by word-
processing software.

• To allow Web browser software to read them,

the text must be formatted according to a
generally accepted standard.

• The standard used on the web is Hypertext

markup language (HTML).
 HTTP

• The set of rules that the computers use to move files

from one computer to another on the Internet.

• The most common transfer protocol used on the

Internet is the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

• Two other protocols that you can use on the Internet

are the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and the Telnet
Protocol.
 Question(s)?

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 Thank you 

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