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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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)