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How WWW Works?

 Four basic phases

 Connections

 Request

 Response

 Close

Working of WWW.

 First, the user can use the browser to connect

with the server. The browser works by using a

special protocol known as HTTP to request a

specially encoded text from the web server.

 The text written in HTML, which tells the

browser how to response on user’s request.

 Lastly, the user can close the window in the

front of him after his required working.

WWW Components

 Structured components

 Clients/browser: to dominant

implementation

 Servers: run on sophisticated hardware

 Caches: many interesting

implementations

 Internet: the global infrastructure which

facilitates data transfer

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