iTP Secure WebServer System Administrator's Guide (iTPWebSvr 6.0+)

Glossary
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TELNET
TELNET. The Internet standard protocol for remote terminal connection service. TELNET
allows a user at one site to interact with remote timesharing systems at another site
just as if the user’s terminal is connected directly to the remote machine. That is, the
user invokes a TELNET application program that connects to a remote machine,
prompts for a login ID and password, and then passes keystrokes from the user’s
terminal to the remote machine and displays output from the remote machine on the
user’s terminal.
Unicode. The 16-bit character encoding used by Java for the char and java.lang.String data
types.
URL. Uniform Resource Locator.
wait mode. In the NonStop Kernel operating system, the mode in which the called
procedure waits for the completion of an input/output (I/O) operation before returning a
condition code to the caller. Compare nowait mode.
Web Container. a Java runtime environment that manages the lifecycle of servlets and JSP.
Web clients. Programs that execute on IBM-compatible PC, Apple Macintosh, or Unix
platforms, among others. They provide a graphic user interface (GUI) for access to
documents and programs on the Web. A web browser is the most familiar example of a
web client.
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.
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.