World-Wide Web A block of data available on the
World-WideWeb, identified by a
URL. In the simplest, most common
case, a web page is a file written in
HTML, stored on the
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
helperapplication 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
hostname, e.g. http://www.foldoc.org/). It may also have
individual home pages for each user with an account at the
site.
(1999-03-21)