December 1999
NI222 : NETWORKS AND THE INTERNET

QUESTION 5

Total Marks: 15 Marks

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for Question 5

(a)

Explain with a suitable example the purpose of specifying the scheme (i.e.the first component)in a URL address.

 

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(b)

Describe the pipelined and multi-threaded architectures used in improving the efficiency of the HTTP protocol in retrieving HTMLfiles.

 

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(c)

Write an HTML fragment for the label that appears when you book-mark a page as “The Centre of Learning",with a page heading “Informatics Computer School".

 

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(d)

What are the relative advantage and disadvantage of the logical and physical styles in HTML documents.

 

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(e)

The power of HTML comes from its ability to link text and documents.Explain three main ways in which the links are used in HTML documents.

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