web page
<World-Wide Web> A block of data available on the World-Wide Web,
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 helper application 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 website often has a home page (usually just the hostname, e.g.
http://foldoc.org/). It may also have individual home pages for each user with
an account at the site.
(1999-03-21)
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