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Copyright (C) 2021 Maxime Devos
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Copyright (C) 2024 Tomas Volf
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Next: <a href="getopt_002dlong.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">The (ice-9 getopt-long) Module</a>, Previous: <a href="POSIX.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev"><abbr class="acronym">POSIX</abbr> System Calls and Networking</a>, Up: <a href="Guile-Modules.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Guile Modules</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<h3 class="section" id="HTTP_002c-the-Web_002c-and-All-That"><span>7.3 <abbr class="acronym">HTTP</abbr>, the Web, and All That<a class="copiable-link" href="#HTTP_002c-the-Web_002c-and-All-That"> ¶</a></span></h3>
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<p>It has always been possible to connect computers together and share
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information between them, but the rise of the World Wide Web over the
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last couple of decades has made it much easier to do so. The result is
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a richly connected network of computation, in which Guile forms a part.
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<p>By “the web”, we mean the HTTP protocol<a class="footnote" id="DOCF25" href="#FOOT25"><sup>25</sup></a> as handled by
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servers, clients, proxies, caches, and the various kinds of messages and
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message components that can be sent and received by that protocol,
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notably HTML.
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<p>On one level, the web is text in motion: the protocols themselves are
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textual (though the payload may be binary), and it’s possible to create
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a socket and speak text to the web. But such an approach is obviously
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primitive. This section details the higher-level data types and
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operations provided by Guile: URIs, HTTP request and response records,
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and a conventional web server implementation.
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<p>The material in this section is arranged in ascending order, in which
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later concepts build on previous ones. If you prefer to start with the
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highest-level perspective, see <a class="pxref" href="Web-Examples.html">Web Examples</a>, and work your way
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back.
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<li><a href="Types-and-the-Web.html" accesskey="1">Types and the Web</a></li>
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<li><a href="URIs.html" accesskey="2">Universal Resource Identifiers</a></li>
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<li><a href="HTTP.html" accesskey="3">The Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol</a></li>
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<li><a href="HTTP-Headers.html" accesskey="4">HTTP Headers</a></li>
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<li><a href="Transfer-Codings.html" accesskey="5">Transfer Codings</a></li>
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<li><a href="Requests.html" accesskey="6">HTTP Requests</a></li>
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<li><a href="Responses.html" accesskey="7">HTTP Responses</a></li>
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<li><a href="Web-Client.html" accesskey="8">Web Client</a></li>
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<li><a href="Web-Examples.html">Web Examples</a></li>
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<h4 class="footnotes-heading">Footnotes</h4>
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<h5 class="footnote-body-heading"><a id="FOOT25" href="#DOCF25">(25)</a></h5>
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<p>Yes, the P is for
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protocol, but this phrase appears repeatedly in RFC 2616.</p>
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Next: <a href="getopt_002dlong.html">The (ice-9 getopt-long) Module</a>, Previous: <a href="POSIX.html"><abbr class="acronym">POSIX</abbr> System Calls and Networking</a>, Up: <a href="Guile-Modules.html">Guile Modules</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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