HTTP

Whenever a user types a URL into the browser and presses the Enter key, his or her computer sends an HTTP request to the correct Webserver. The Webserver, developed to handle such requests, then sends the user the requested HTML page. Or to be entirely accurate, a Webserver can send HTML back to a browser dynamically and not necessarily in a page. Dynamic languages, such as PHP (PHP: Hypertext Processor), can generate HTML dynamically and not deal with it in a page.

Some important Websites related to detecting and curbing cracking activities, cyberterrorism, and cybercrimes include http://www.2600.com, the Website for 2600: The Hacker Quarterly; http://www.antionline.com, the Website for Antionline (AO), a place where members share their knowledge to help others learn to identify and mitigate security issues regarding real-world events; and http://www.cert.org, the Website for the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC), a center of Internet security expertise located at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

See Also: HTML (HyperText Markup Language); Internet; URL or Uniformed Resource Locator; World Wide Web (WWW).