CIS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 99: Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Transmission Control Protocol, Html

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

For example, amazon. com and google. com are registered as separate domain names. When you type in url, example www. yahoo. com, into your browser, your computer must convert it to an internet protocol (ip) address: to do this, your computer consults a database maintained on a domain name. System (dns) server, which functions like a phone book for the internet. The hypertext transfer protocol (http) was created especially for the transfer of hypertext documents across the internet. Secure hypertext transfer protocol (https) an extension to the http protocol and supports sending data securely over the web: secure sockets layer (ssl) provides for the encryption of data transmitted using. Tcp/ip protocols such as http: all major web browsers support ssl. A web page is merely a text document that is formatted using the hypertext markup. Language (html: the current version of html is called extensible hypertext markup language (xhtml)