HTTP and the Web

Vint Cerf is the father of...

• The Internet

• The web

• SMTP

• HTTP

Tim Berners-Lee is the father of...

• The Web

• The Internet

• HTTP

• HTML

What made the web such a big success?

• Fast loading times

• Hypertext

• Very affordable price

• Very nice graphics

Which are core elements of the web?

• HTML

• HTTP

• Web browsers

• URLs

• Web servers

What is the purpose of HTML?

• Formatting and styling

• Adding semantics to plain text

• Rendering different media types

• Linking documents

URIs are used for

• Opening media files

• Labelling data

• Addressing web servers

• Uniquely identifying resources

URIs and URLs are concepts exclusively related to the web

• True

• False

Among others, an URL may include...

• User & password for auth

• Port

• Permissions

• Alternative loading paths

• Bookmarks

Which of this queries are valid?

• https://google.es

• https://u:ser:[e-mail]:3232:2323

• http://mail.usj.es:80

• http://mail.usj.es:80#here

HTTP, as opposed to SMTP...

• Follows de client-server patterns

• Is standardised by the IETF

• Is stateless

• Exchanges only plain ASCII messages