Internet Reference

Internet

• Top-level domains:
  • country codes.
  • other top-level domains

• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
  • port numbers
  • MIME types

• Internet Engineering Task Force
  • RFCs

• RFCs (and here)

• Cisco Systems documentation
  • Internetworking Technology Handbook
  • Internetworking Terms and Acronyms

Web

• HTTP

• HTTP 1.1 (RFC 2616)
  • HTTP methods
  • HTTP headers
  • HTTP response codes

HTML

• HTML (and here)

• HTML 4.01 (rather strangely, W3C stopped defining new versions of HTML for many years with this version in 1999)
  • list of tags
  • Basic HTML data types
    • colors

• HTML special characters
  • list (doesn't actually display them)
  • Examples of what they look like here and here.
  • Displayed with:
    • &name;
    • &#nnn;

• How to do various things:
  • thesitewizard.com
  • w3schools.com
  • pageresource.com
  • htmlite.com
  • htmlhelp.com

• HTML Reference

• How to do various things

  
  

• HTML 5 is now under draft.
  • HTML 5 reference (and here)
  • HTML 5 finally includes proper multimedia support.
  • It includes <video> and <audio> tags to standardise multimedia embedding.

ASCII characters

• ASCII characters
• 8-bit ASCII chars
• ISO/IEC 8859

Percent encoding

• Percent encoding HEX values (%nn) often used in HTTP:

  space %20
  space +
  
  " %22
  & %26
  / %2F
  
  : %3A
  < %3C
  = %3D
  > %3E
  ? %3F
  

• Javascript encodeURIComponent ( string ) converts string to percent-encoded format
• Online URL encoders

• Can run Online or standalone PHP with:
  • urlencode
  • urldecode

Javascript Percent-encoder

My pages

• Computers and Internet
  • CGI scripts and HTML Forms

  • How to copy someone else's HTML Form into your page
    View Source to see how this is done.

• Computers and Internet Links
  • Can anyone solve my <ol> issue?

My history online

• The Internet in the 1980s when I started using it.
• Net access in the 1980s and today
• My first trace on the Internet that survives: post to comp.unix.questions, 31 Mar 1988.
• How my program passed the Turing Test - a program I put online in 1989.
• My "home page", Feb 1989.

• My home page, Nov 1994.

• Why on earth would I link to you?, 1999.
• My CGI search engine, 1999.
• How to draw family trees in hypertext, 2000.
• My CGI Error Handler to replace "404 Not Found", 2000.
• The World-Wide-Mind, 2001.
• My scheme for stopping spam, 2002.

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