WEB PROGRAMMING

Fundamentals of web
INTERNET
 The Internet (or internet) is a global system
of interconnected computer networks that
uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to
communicate between networks and
devices.

Example:Mobile, WiFi Hotspots, Dial-Up,Cable,

Broadband, Satellite etc..

ADVANTAGES OF INTERNET
 Information, knowledge, and learning.
 Connectivity, communication, and sharing.
 Anonymity and making people equal.
 Address, mapping, and contact information.
 Banking, bills, and shopping.
 Selling and making money.
DISADVANTAGES OF INTERNET
 Addiction, time-waster, and causes
distractions.
 Bullying, trolls, stalkers, and crime.
 Spam and advertising.
 Pornographic and violent images.
 Never being able to disconnect from work.
 Identity theft, hacking, viruses, and cheating.
WWW
 World Wide Web
 The World Wide Web—commonly referred to
as WWW, is an interconnected system of
public web pages accessible through the
Internet.
 The Web is not the same as the Internet: the
Web is one of many applications built on top
of the Internet.
WEB BROWSE AND WEB SERVER
URL’S
 URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator.

 Any internet location available on server is called a web URL, web

address or website.

 Each website or webpage has a unique address called URL.

 Basic structure of URL is:

type://address/path

type: It specifies the type of the server in which the file is located.

address: It specifies the address or location of the internet server.

path: It specifies the location of the file on the internet server.

TYPES OF URL
There are two types of URL:
1. Absolute URL
2. Relative URL

Absolute URL: 
This type of URL contains both the domain name and
directory/page path.

Relative URL: 
This type of URL contains the path excluding the
domain name.
 MIME
 MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions.
 A MIME type (or media type) is an identifier for file
formats or format contents on the Internet.
 All MIME types are officially maintained by the
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
 MIME types are traditionally written in all
lowercase, but MIME types are actually case in-
sensitive.
 HTTP
 HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.
 It is a protocol used to access the data on the World Wide
Web (www).
 The HTTP protocol can be used to transfer the data in
the form of plain text, hypertext, audio, video, and so
on.
 This protocol is known as HyperText Transfer Protocol
because of its efficiency that allows us to use in a
hypertext environment where there are rapid jumps from
one document to another document.