【大学课件】基于Web的应用系统开发知识分享.pptVIP

基于Web的应用系统开发4. Web browsers, servers and HTTP /sundae_meng 4 Web Browsers Browsers are clients always initiate, servers react Allow user to browse resources available on server either existing or dynamically built documents Mosaic - NCSA (Univ. of Illinois), in early 1993 First to use a GUI, led to explosion of Web use Initially for X-Windows, under UNIX, but was ported to other platforms by late 1993 Current common browsers Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome (as of 9/3/08) 5 Web Servers Provide responses to browser requests All communications betw