generally, a local area network operating within a single organization that leases access to the Web directly from regional national carriers
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Internet vs. WWW
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the Internet is a network of networks while WWW is a single network
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HTTPS
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a protocol that allows HTTP communication to be encrypted so that unauthorized people cannot see or change the information being transmitted between client and server (most often a web browser and a web server). Uses a standard called Transport Layer Security (TLS) to encrypt all of the data
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hostname
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name of the server (www.example.com)
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Path
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after the hostname following ex: /departments
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Wide Area Network (WAN)
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a network that connects computers over very large geographical areas such as countries or continent.
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Trusted Certificate
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Positively identifying a web server. Can be thought of as an ID card issued by what is known as a certificate authority
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JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
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A lightweight data interchange approach that is relatively easy for humans to understand and for computers to generate or interpret. In key/value format
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OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project)
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Is an online community dedicated to web application security. This community works to create freely-available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies that include web application flaws and a way to address and correct them.
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Browser
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get information and present information from the web to the user and helps the user navigate
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Protocol
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A set of rules governing the exchange or transmission of data between devices. HTTP://
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HTTP
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HyperText Transfer Protocol - the protocol used for transmitting web pages over the Internet
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AJAX
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Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, which permits Web information to be processed (sending a request and getting a response back) without reloading a page.
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Web Server
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delivers requested content to the browser (the client).
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XML (Extensible Markup Language)
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A markup language that is designed to carry data instead of indicating how to display it. Similar to HTML, has tags and can have attributes
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DNS
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Domain Name System. Think of DNS as a phone book for computer networks. It maps computer names to IP addresses, much like a phone book maps people's names to their phone numbers.
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Internet
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the global communication network that connects the vast number of computer networks in the world.
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Web services
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a web application that return data instead of HTML. Not limited to having only a web browser as a client
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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
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Style sheet language that provides the formatting and "look" of a Web page or document written in a markup language.
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URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
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A location or address identifying where documents can be found on the Internet; a Web address
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Web Application
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a Web Site that allows users to access and interact with software from any computer or device that is connected to the internet
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Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)
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A large computer network usually spanning a city
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Router
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connect networks together.
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Layout engine
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processes (renders) the HTML and displays it in the browser.
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IPV6
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Uses 128 bit addressing. IP address for an individual computer. Replaced IPv4 (which used 32 bit)
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Switch
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connect two or more computers together to form a network.
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TCP/IP
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Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol describes the rules for getting information from one place to another on the Internet.
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World Wide Web
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a subset of the Internet in which information is accessed using HTTP, web browsers, and web servers.
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Local Area Network (LAN)
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A group of computers connected within a confined geographic area.