iTP Active Transaction Pages (iTP ATP) Programmer's Guide

Glossary
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Web server
Web server. Web servers are programs that execute on a variety of server platforms. These
include IBM-compatible servers, Apple Macintosh servers, Unix servers, and a large
number of proprietary hosts. Web server functions can be divided into two parts. A file
server part performs normal file server functions such as file transfer and buffering. A
message switching facility allows messages from web clients to be forwarded to
application programs.
WID keyfile. The file in which you maintain keys you generated using the keyadmin
command with the -websafegen argument. These are the keys you use to generate
certificates for hardware encryption. Compare key database file
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World Wide Web (WWW) protocols. The WWW protocols were first defined by the CERN
project in Switzerland and were later extended by a number of groups, most notably by
the National Center for SuperComputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of
Illinois. These WWW protocols were originally developed to improve communications
over the Internet by providing the ability to access and display web-client
hardware-independent documents that not only contained ASCII text but that also
contained pictures, graphics, and voice and video elements. In addition to accessing
documents, the WWW protocols can also be used to provide document searching
facilities and also interaction with user-written or vendor-provided servers.
WWW. See World Wide Web (WWW) protocols
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XML. Extensible Markup Language, a standard for tagging data in an HTML document so as
to provide semantic information about content elements.