EECS 1520 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10 : Phishing, Malware, Denial-Of-Service Attack

• School: York University
• Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Course: EECS 1520
• Professor: John Hofbauer

Document Summary

D is for digital textbook summary: eecs 1520. The web: connects computers that provide information (called servers) to people that ask for the information (called clients) Url (uniform resource locator): standard form of a web address. Provides a way to specify a name for information and where to find it. It must be written in a restricted character set that excludes spaces and non- alphanumeric characters. Http (hypertext transfer protocol): a higher-level data transfer protocol; client asks for url and server responds. The http protocol provides cgi (common gateway interference) for passing information from client to a server. Https (hypertext transfer protocol secure): a secure, encrypted version of http. Html (hypertext markup language): a language for describing the contents and format of a webpage. Browser: a program that runs on your computer that makes requests of servers using urls and. Http, retrieves html sent by server, then displays it. Hypertext: linking pages, accessed through point and click.