Internet Technology. Instructor: Prof. Indranil Sengupta, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. This course talks about the various aspects of the Internet. Evolution of Internet, TCP/IP: addressing and routing. Internet applications: FTP, Telnet, Email, Chat. World Wide Web: HTTP protocol. Designing web pages: HTML, forms, CGI scripts and clickable maps, JAVA applets, JAVA script, JAVA servlets, Perl, DHTML, XML. E-Commerce and security issues including symmetric and asymmetric key, encryption and digital signature, authentication. Emerging trends, Internet telephony, virtual reality over the web, etc. Intranet and extranet, firewall design issues.
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Lecture 12 - World Wide Web, Part 2: How Web and Proxy Servers Work