Iomega Network Device Manual De Usuario

DataSafe NAS User’s Manual 

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The hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) is a 
communications protocol designed to transfer 
hypertext documents between computers over the 
World Wide Web (the Web). HTTP defines what actions 
Web servers and browsers should take in response to 
various commands.

This section contains the following topics:

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“World-Wide Web Server” on page 83

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“Network Protocol Overview: HTTP” on page 84

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“HTTPS Creating a Secure Connection” on page 85

The Web is a network within the Internet consisting of: 
1) servers that provide information in hypertext 
format, and 2) clients that relay user input to the 
server, which displays information on the servers in 
the user-specified format. While the FTP server and 
Gopher server present information in a hierarchical 
directory structure, Web information is presented in 
pages. A page can be an index or a document. Pages 
have hypertext entries, like those in Microsoft 
Windows Help files, that are linked to other Web 
pages. (A link can connect users to a page on any of 
the thousands of WEB servers, and can also connect 
users to other kinds of Internet resources.) Users 
access information, or navigate through the Internet, 
by selecting highlighted words (links) in the 
documents, including indexes, that are shared on 
WEB servers. 
The commands used by the Web are defined in the 
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).