web page

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

server. It may refer to images which appear as part of

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

Internet resources by including hypertext links.

A web site often has a home page (usually just the

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)