Part IV Web Server Hardware and Software
8.1 Web Server Basics
8.1.1 Types of Web Sites Development sites. Intranets. Extranets. Transaction-processing sites. Content-delivery sites.
8.1.2 Web Clients and Web Servers LANs,WANs, and the Web. Client/server architecture.
8.1.3 Dynamic Content HTML. Server-Side Scripting. Dynamic Page-Generation Technologies The Future of Dynamic Web Page Generation
8.1.4 Various Meanings of “ Server ” Makes programs available to other computers connected to it through a network.
8.1.5 Web Client/Server Communication
8.1.6 Two-Tier Client/Server Architecture Request line Optional request headers Optional entity body
8.1.7 Three-Tier and N-Tier Client/Server Architectures Web pages, a web site, and additional processing.
8.2 Software for Web Servers Linux. Microsoft server. Open Source initiative.
8.2.1 Operating Systems for Web Servers Unix. Linux SuSE, Red Hat …
8.2.2 Web Server Software IIS. Apache. Sun ONE. IPlanet Enterprise Server,
8.2.3 Finding Web Server Software Information
8.3 Electronic Mail ( )
Benefits
Drawbacks
8.3.3 Spam
8.3.4 Solutions to the Spam Problem
8.4 Web Site and Internet Utility Programs
8.4.1 Finger and Ping Utilities
8.4.2 Tracert and Other Route-Tracing Programs
8.4.3 Telnet and FTP utilities.