The World Wide Web (which means "worldwide network", also known as Web and WWW) is a system of hypermedia documents that are linked and executed on the Internet.
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What is the purpose of the WWW subdomain?
What's the point of having www.? Isn't it just useless extra text? Since everyone is used to it, www.google.com looks more well-balanced than google.com, but why did it start in the first place?
One thing I noticed, is that google.com has the IP of…
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What does wwws mean?
I've seen a couple of sites that use wwws in their domain, for example: wwws.mint.com and wwws.whitehouse.gov. I'm sure it has something to do with an extra layer of security.
What does it mean and what is it used for? Why do only a handful of…
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Is it possible for many domain names to share one IP address?
Is it possible for many domain names to share one IP address? For example, www.xjtl.com, www.fmie.com, sdmfl.com, etc.
Hundreds of domain names share just one IP – when you do a DNS query for each of them, the same IP is returned.
Are there any laws…
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What is a hostname versus a computer name versus a subdomain versus www?
I was searching for understanding what is the “www” at the beginning of so many web addresses in the Internet. I read in somewhere that “www” is called “hostname”.
The world “hostname” made me go a step further in searching, I read so many threads…
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Does the meaning of the term WWW mean it has to be performed by HTTP servers- by definition?
The following is a question regarding correct terminology.
Could the World Wide Web exist without HTTP?
Is there any other application layer protocol that can serve WWW pages?
Is HTTP an essential part of the web by definition?
P.S. the answer has…
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Is it possible to disable the HTTP referer header being passed by browsers?
Is it possible to force browsers so they don't include the HTTP referer header?
I'd like that every page visit looks like it's accessed by a manually typed URL in the browser's address bar, not like it's the result of activating a hyperlink (even if…
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What is the maximum size of a cookie, and how many can be stored in a browser for each web site?
I am learning about cookies, and I wonder about browser support:
For each domain/web site, how many cookies may be sent to a browser, and of what size?
If multiple cookies are sent and stored, does that affect performance?
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How do I show www. and https:// in Chrome 79?
I just updated Chrome to version 79, and I noticed that prefixes like https:// and www. have disappeared again. Before, I fixed this by setting the omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains flag in chrome://flags to Disabled. However,…
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Is the www in web addresses a subdomain?
Possible Duplicate:
Whats the purpose of the WWW subdomain?
I read about sub domains at w3schools, but Wikipedia says something different. The w3schools gave the example of www being a sub domain. Is the www before the website the subdomain or…
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How do I administer /var/www?
I'm new to Linux and I'm trying to setup a small testing server inside of a VM running Ubuntu Server. I've found the /var/www folder and it should be the one where my Apache documents are stored, in fact if I access my VM's IP I see the index.html…
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Why the difference in the URL formatting?
Why is that some URL's end with .html while some do not, while most of them are HTML pages?
Why is that some URL's begin with www and some do not, while all of them are on World Wide Web?
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Settings permissions on /var/www
I'm running ubuntu server and have apache installed as a web server. I'm letting my web developers upload files through sftp (ssh) to /var/www. I'm using www-data group to control access to /var/www folder. They are able to upload the files…
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firefox: don't save error pages in history
Can I configure Firefox so that error pages are not kept in the history?
If I enter once a mistaken URL, say superusre.com, it is kept in my history. Every time I start typing supe... it is suggested to me as a completion and I return to the…
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names of different http schemes
I am wondering what the different names are for these things:
localhost (host?)
localhost:3000 (address?)
http://localhost:3000 (url base?)
http://localhost:3000/xyz (url resource?)
what are the best names for the…
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What's the point of "waiting to redirect" pages?
I noticed that many websites, when they redirect you, they show a "redirecting in 5 seconds" page before the actual redirection. What's the purpose of that?
I am currently implementing a links directory and I made it so that the redirection happens…
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