A report on Hypertext Transfer Protocol and Form (HTML)

Sample form. The form is enclosed in an HTML table for visual layout.

URL beginning with the HTTP scheme and the WWW domain name label

Registration form of PHP-based e-commerce web-shop software ZenCart

An HTTP/1.1 request made using telnet. The request message, response header section, and response body are highlighted.

This element specifies the communication endpoint the data entered into the form should be submitted to, and the method of submitting the data, or.

- Form (HTML)

Some web applications need to manage user sessions, so they implement states, or server side sessions, using for instance HTTP cookies or hidden variables within web forms.

- Hypertext Transfer Protocol

4 related topics with Alpha

Web server

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The inside and front of a Dell PowerEdge server, a computer designed to be mounted in a rack mount environment. It is often used as a web server.

Multiple web servers may be used for a high traffic website.

Web server farm with thousands of web servers used for super-high traffic websites.

ADSL modem running an embedded web server serving dynamic web pages used for modem configuration.

First web proposal (1989) evaluated as "vague but exciting..."

The world's first web server, a NeXT Computer workstation with Ethernet, 1990. The case label reads: "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!"

Sun's Cobalt Qube 3 – a computer server appliance (2002, discontinued)

PC clients connected to a web server via Internet

PC clients communicating via network with a web server serving static and dynamic content.

Directory listing dynamically generated by a web server.

Chart:
Market share of all sites for most popular web servers 2005–2021

Chart:
Market share of all sites for most popular web servers 1995–2005

A web server is computer software and underlying hardware that accepts requests via HTTP (the network protocol created to distribute web content) or its secure variant HTTPS.

These capabilities, along with the multimedia features of NCSA's Mosaic browser (also able to manage HTML FORMs in order to send data to web server) highlighted the potential of web technology for publishing and distributed computing applications.

Website

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Collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server.

Server-side programming language usage in 2016.

Before the introduction of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), other protocols such as File Transfer Protocol and the gopher protocol were used to retrieve individual files from a server.

Dynamic sites can be interactive by using HTML forms, storing and reading back browser cookies, or by creating a series of pages that reflect the previous history of clicks.

Dynamic web page

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Web page whose construction is controlled by an application server processing server-side scripts.

When a request to a dynamic web page or resource is made, the application server processes the request using its server-side language.

Using server-side scripting to change the supplied page source between pages, adjusting the sequence or reload of the web pages or web content supplied to the browser. Server responses may be determined by such conditions as data in a posted HTML form, parameters in the URL, the type of browser being used, the passage of time, or a database or server state.

HTTP has been in use since 1990, HTML, as standard, since 1996.

POST (HTTP)

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In computing, POST is a request method supported by HTTP used by the World Wide Web.

It is often used when uploading a file or when submitting a completed web form.