The World Wide Web - Beneath the Surf

© Mark Handley and Jon Crowcroft, UCL Press, 1994

ISBN 1-85728-435-6

Available direct from UCL Press - tel +44 171 380 7707

• Preface
  • Outline/Organisation
  • Typographic Conventions
  • Disclaimer
  • Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• The Information Highstreet - Introduction
  • Internet History
  • Hosts, Networks and Routers
  • Names, Addresses and Routes
  • Performance
  • Protocols
  • Host and Applications
  • Network Functionality
  • Internet Futures
    • The Next Generation Internet and its Competitors
  • Policies
• Information - Are You Being Served?
  • Transport Protocols
    • Transport Interfaces
  • Telnet
  • File Transfer Protocol - FTP
  • Electronic Mail and Info-Servers
    • Mail Lists
    • Bulletin Boards
  • Archie
  • Whois/Finger/Netfind
    • Whois
    • Finger
    • Netfind
  • X.500 and DNS
    • DNS
    • X.500
  • Wide Area Information Server - WAIS
  • Gopher
  • World Wide Web
  • A Note on Stateless Servers
• The World Wide Web
  • Beneath the Surf
  • Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
  • An Introduction to HTML
  • Getting Started
  • Headings and Typefaces
  • Lists of things
  • Making it all look pretty
    • Horizontal Rules
    • Pictures
  • Linking it all together
  • Hotlists
  • More Pretty Pictures
  • Links Within a Page
  • Pre-Formatted Text
  • A note on links
  • Special Characters
  • Where are we now?
• Client Programs
  • What does a WWW browser program actually do?
  • Displaying Embedded Images
  • Running a Client
  • Different Browsers and Different Viewing Styles
  • A Simple User Guide
  • Configuring MIME Types for Launching Viewers
  • Starting Points, History and Hot Lists
  • Your Home Page
  • Personal Annotations
  • Customising Your View of the Web
  • Common Client Interface
  • Accessing Other Information Services through Client Programs
  • Viewing HTML Source of Documents from a Client
  • PCs/MS-DOS Clients
    • Trumpet Winsock
    • Internet Assistant
  • LibWWW - Writing Your Own Client!
  • Local File Access
• Serving Information to the Web
  • WWW Servers
  • MIME
    • MIME Content Types
    • Suffixes, Servers and MIME types
  • URLs and Server File Systems
  • Proxy Servers
  • Server Scripts
    • Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
    • Writing CGI scripts
  • Active Maps
  • Forms
    • Laying Out Forms
      • The INPUT command
      • The SELECT Command
      • The TEXTAREA Command
      • An Example Form
    • Submitting Forms to the Server
    • Doing Something with the Form
  • Where are we now?
• Academic Examples of WWW Servers
  • Syllabi/Course Administration
  • Course Notes
    • Filters and Links
  • Research Publications
    • Research Projects Coordination
  • Some more examples of similar server sites
• Commercial Web Servers
  • Carl Philips Yachting
  • Mass Media in the Web
  • A Major Television Company's Server
  • A Major Newspaper's Server
  • Where are we now?
• Servers Galore
  • Available Servers
  • MacHTTP
    • MacHTTP 1.3
    • Configuration
      • Resticting Access to a MacHTTP Server
      • Specifying the MIME Content Type with MacHTTP
  • NCSA's HTTPD Server
    • HTTPD V1.3
    • Configuration of HTTPD
    • Setting the Server Resource Map - srm.conf
    • The Server Configuration File - httpd.conf
    • The Access Configuration File - access.conf
      • Restricting Users
      • More detailed access control
      • Where to configure access control
  • CERN HTTPD
    • Version 3.0
    • CERN HTTPD Configuration
    • Enabling Security on the CERN server
      • Restricting hosts
      • Restricting Users
      • Protecting Access to Individual Files using Access Control Lists
    • Configuring CERN HTTPD as a Caching Proxy
  • Imagemap Configuration
    • Imagemaps using MacHTTP - the DIY approach
    • NCSA HTTPD's Imagemap Command
    • CERN HTTPD's Htimage Command
    • Map Editors
  • Form Processing
    • The DIY Approach
    • The cgiparse approach on the CERN server
    • Using Tokenize on MacHTTP
  • Server Performance
• Problems with WWW
  • Introduction
  • Real Time
  • TCP + RPC is not Sensible fetch protocol
  • Replicas, Caches and Consistency
  • Billing
  • Security
    • Public Key Cryptography and the WWW
• Where its Heading?
  • Multimedia: Video and Audio Support?
  • Spiders and Robots
  • Virtual Reality, Games and MUDs in General
  • Problems with the Internet
    • Performance Parameters
    • Internet Service Model Futures
    • Best Effort and Charging
    • Real Time Traffic
    • Receiver Driven Resource Reservation
• HTML Grammar
  • Introduction to Grammars
  • HTML and SGML
• Uniform Resource Locators: URLs
  • Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Grammar
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
  • The HTTP Protocol
• MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
• URLs cited, or useful as sources of further information
  • Sources
  • Glossary
  • Index
• About this document ...