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World-Wide Web> A block of data available on the {World-Wide
Web}, identified by a
URL. In the simplest, most common
case, a
web page is a file written in
HTML, stored on the
server. It may refer to
images which appear as part of
the
page when it is displayed by a
web browser. It is also
possible for the server to generate pages dynamically in
response to a request, e.g. using a
CGI script.
A
web page can be in any format that the browser or a {helper
application} can display. The format is transmitted as part
of the headers of the response as a
MIME type,
e.g. "text/html", "image/gif".
An HTML
web page will typically refer to other
web pages and
Internet resources by including
hypertext links.
A
website often has a
home page (usually just the
hostname, e.g. http://foldoc.org/). It may also have
individual home pages for each user with an account at the
site.
(1999-03-21)