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Thread ID: 49608	2004-09-25 02:09:00	http and www. What's the dif?	mark c (247)	Press F1

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275415	2004-09-25 08:10:00	Hey thank you Godfather so is there anything that is still "traditionally" the internet that is not now sent through HTTP? Newsgroups? The statement earlier that everything accessed by a web browser is therefore Web not internet struck me as odd (tho thanks for the help) because I only use a browser to access anything outside my computer. I realise this could go on and on but I have checked this out thru various "Teach Yourself the Internet" kind of sites and "www vs http" in searches. Maybe the distinction between internet and web is really academic to the point of irrelevance. Don't mean to be a nuisance but a pal posed this question to me and (for once) I couldn't answer. :^O	mark c (247)
275416	2004-09-25 11:20:00	Sorry but I really don't know what you want to know. There are a number of protocols used to convey information. Sounds like you use only http. Because you only use a browser. Not an email client, or an FTP client, or a news client. But the data is all carried on (mostly) the same backbone of communications. I think its all been covered above. www is a part of a name basically. http is a protocol. So is your question "why are some people called "Allan", while others are called "Mr"?	godfather (25)
275417	2004-09-25 20:56:00	>>>Maybe the distinction between internet and web is really academic to the point of irrelevance. No, absolutely not. The 'web' is just a subset or part of the internet and which uses http as the communication protocol, just one amongst several. There are lots of other protocols as has already been said. The World Wide Web just happens to be at this time the most commonly used feature because it has bells and whistles and gui's etc. In the early days The Internet was all command line stuff, ftp, telnet, etc no pretty pictures, the early web was relatively crude and not many public sites, that was why MS thought there was no future in it, unlike Netscape and others who could see a potential.	Terry Porritt (14)
275418	2004-09-25 21:49:00	Ok thanks to you all, kind of got a grip on it now. Just had a ray of light beam down on me when i realized when I FTP something it's not from a browser, so it's not HTTP, it's FTP, and no it (the server I send stuff to) won't be prefixed with WWW. Thanks for all your help, shall stop nagging about it now and go and tell my mate. :D	mark c (247)
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