<World-Wide Web> A block of data available on the World-Wide
Web, identified by a URL. In the simplest, most common
case, a web page is a file written in HTML, stored on the
server. It may refer to images which appear as part of
the page when it is displayed by a web browser. It is also
possible for the server to generate pages dynamically in
response to a request, e.g. using a CGI script.
A web page can be in any format that the browser or a helper
application can display. The format is transmitted as part
of the headers of the response as a MIME type,
e.g. "text/html", "image/gif".
An HTML web page will typically refer to other web pages and
Internet resources by including hypertext links.
A website often has a home page (usually just the
hostname, e.g. http://foldoc.org/). It may also have
individual home pages for each user with an account at the
site.
(1999-03-21)
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