Spinning the Web A Guide to Serving Information on the World Wide Web [Paperback]

Most books on the Internet describe it from the user's end. This one, however, is unique in its focus on serving information on the World Wide Web. It presents everything from the basics to advanced techniques and will thus prove invaluable to site administrators and developers. The author - an expert developer and researcher at UCSD - covers such topics as HTML 3.0, serving documents, interfaces, WWW utilities and browsers such as Netscape. Fisher also includes an introduction to programming with JAVA and JAVA script, as well as the complete VRML 1.0 specification. With tie-ins to Springer's Web site, featuring a bulletin board for the latest information online.This book is written for: anyone who wants to serve information on the WWW. The book contains detailed instructions on how to fetch, configure, and administer the most popular WWW server programs. The server chapter is separated into sections that discuss how to set up common configurations and sections that serve as references for all the directives that control server behavior. anyone who wants to maintain a secure WWW site. The book discusses how to create a secure site. It covers inse? cure configurations of servers, browsers, and scripts, and it gives a list of measures that reduce the likelihood of a security breach. anyone who wants to create information to be served on the WWW. HTML is the language used to create WWW pages, and almost all the variations, extensions, and fla~ vors of HTML are discussed in the book. Two chapters, introductory and advanced, teach HTML by example, and an extensive reference chapter contains all ofHTML 2, all the HTML 3 that is implemented or proposed as of the writ? ing of this book, and Netscape Navigator 2 and Spyglass Enhanced Mosaic extensions. It's comprehensive. anyone who wants to create state-of-the art WWW docu? ments. The book discusses how to include images, sounds, and video in documents; how to store and manipulate im? ages for optimal effect - for eló%