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web periphery

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

The collection of resources on the Web which is not part of the Web Core or the Web Neighborhood.

Concepts relating to the process of accessing Web resources and render Web resource manifestations.

web request

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

A Web request is a request issued by a Web client. A Web request can be described as either:

Explicit Web request:: A request that is initiated manually by the user.
Implicit Web request:: A request that is initiated transparently by the Web client, without manual intervention on the part of the user, as an ancillary event corresponding to an explicit Web request.

and as either:

Embedded Web request:: A request for dereferencing a URI embedded within a Web resource manifestation: e.g., following the link in an HTML document, etc.
User-input Web request:: A request for dereferencing a URI supplied by the user directly to the Web client: e.g., typed into the address window, bookmarks, history, etc.

web request body

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

web request header

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

The request header contains information about the request, information about the client itself, and potentially information about any resource manifestation included in the request.

web resource

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

A resource, identified by a URI, that is a member of the Web Core.

Note: The URI identifying the Web Resource does not itself have to be found within the Web Core. That is, a URI written on a bus identifying a resource that is a member of the Web Core identifies a Web Resource.

web resource

From User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2002-12-17) | Glossary for this source

The term "Web resource" is used in this document in accordance with Web Characterization Terminology and Definitions Sheet [WEBCHAR] to mean anything that can be identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI); refer to RFC 2396 [RFC2396].

web resource

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

A resource manifestation generated by a Web resource.

web response

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

A Web response is a response issued by a Web server.

web response body

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

The response body (if any) of an HTTP response is used to carry the payload of the HTTP message.

web response header

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

The response header contains information about the response, information about the server itself, and potentially information about any resource manifestation which may or may not be included in the response.

web server

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

A server that provides access to Web resources and which supplies Web resource manifestations to the requestor.

web service

From XML Key Management (XKMS 2.0) Requirements (2003-05-05) | Glossary for this source

A service that is accessible by means of messages sent using standard web protocols, notations and naming conventions, including XML Protocol (or until XML protocol is standardized, SOAP). Web service may also imply the use of ancillary mechanisms, such as WSDL [WSDL ] and UDDI [ UDDI ] for defining Web services interfaces.

web service

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

There are many things that might be called "Web services" in the world at large. However, for the purpose of this Working Group and this architecture, and without prejudice toward other definitions, we will use the following definition:

A Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. It has an interface described in a machine-processable format (specifically WSDL). Other systems interact with the Web service in a manner prescribed by its description using SOAP-messages, typically conveyed using HTTP with an XML serialization in conjunction with other Web-related standards.

web site

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

A collection of interlinked Web pages, including a host page , residing at the same network location. "Interlinked" is understood to mean that any of a Web site's constituent Web pages can be accessed by following a sequence of references beginning at the site's host page ; spanning zero, one or more Web pages located at the same site; and ending at the Web page in question.

http://www.w3.org to http://www.w3.org/WCA/, and
http://www.w3.org/WCA/ to http://www.w3.org/WCA/1998/12/aut_char.html

Notes: It is not uncommon for Web sites to be duplicated, or mirrored, on multiple physical host machines (e.g., for load balancing purposes). Typically, it is immaterial to the client (or user) which host machine is used to access the Web site.In this case, it may be useful to consider this collection of "physical" Web sites, located at multiple host machines, as one "logical" Web site.This is possible in the case where a single domain name is mapped to each of the host machines; the logical Web site can then be identified using the unique domain name.If there is no unique domain name that can be applied to the collection of duplicate sites, we consider each physical host machine as a separate Web site.

web site publisher

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

A person or corporate body that is the primary claimant to the rewards or benefits resulting from usage of the Web site, incurs at least part of the costs necessary to produce and distribute the site, and exercises editorial control over the finished form of the Web site and its content. See also the term publisher .

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