Summary
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There are many papers dealing with Internet, also because of the exponential growth that the
Web has had in these last few years in both number of users and popularity. Only fews of them
however face the matter from a technical point of view, entering the mechanisms
that stay at the base of Internet operation. Using a simple language, easy to understand
also to end-users, this book provides readerds with a
complete and deepened overview of the principal protocols of communication used in Internet.
After a brief introduction of a series of concepts and definition of the basic terminology,
it deals with the fundamental protocols and particularly IP, TCP and UDP. Then there is
a section devoted the various application protocols, that is, the "classical" FTP,
HTTP and the protocols for the management of electronic mail (SMTP, POP3, IMAP4 and
MIME). Finally, it introduces few recent protocols that could play an
important role in the evolution of the Web, to terminate with a series of chapters on the
process of standardization and on the USENET groups, or newsgroups.
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