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The World Wide Web Consortium (WWWC) develops standards for the smooth growth of the World Wide Web. Fig
            7.1 provides an overview of the working of WWW. The Internet connects you to WWW. When you wish to search for
            information on the web, the request is relayed to the appropriate server (via the Internet), which uses the Internet to
            send the reply to your system (host).
                                                                         Web






                          Host Computer
                                           Request
                                           INTERNET                                             Server
                                            Response






                                                     Fig 7.1 WWW and Internet


                  WWW is a collection of resources that can be accessed via the Internet. Each resource is identified using unique
                  Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs).


            7.1.2 Web page, Website, and URL

            A Web page is a document that displays multimedia content such as text, images, audio, and video. To view a web page,
            you require a web browser such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Microsoft Edge (formerly Internet Explorer).
            An organisation typically has its content spread over several interlinked web pages. Such a collection of web pages is
            called a website. Each website has a home page (the first page) that includes some important information about the
            organisation and links to other web pages on the website. Using the link on the home page, one can navigate to other
            pages on the website, which may also have links to other website pages. Each web page on the World Wide Web is
            identified by a unique address known as Uniform Resource Locator (URL).
            A URL comprises three parts, protocol name, domain name and name of the file. It identifies the web server and the
            location (specific folder) of a particular web page. For example, consider the following URL:
                                 https://www.orangebooks.in/services/book-editing-and-proofreading




                                 Protocol Name      Domain Name         Path Name of Resource

            In the above URL, the domain name is orangebooks, and the webpage book-editing-and-proofreading resides in the
            folder services.


                   A URL may be absolute or relative. An absolute URL contains the complete address, which includes the protocol,
                   domain name and path name of the resource. On the other hand, a relative URL may contain the domain and the
                   path name of the resource or just the name of the resource. It starts with a forward slash, and it is assumed that
                   the browser will stay on the current website. For example, https://www.orangebooks.in/services/book-editing-and-
                   proofreading  is an absolute URL, while /services/book-editing-and-proofreading is a relative URL.




                  A Web page is a document that displays multimedia content such as text, images, audio, and video.
                  A collection of interlinked web pages is called a website.


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