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Articles tagged: Infrastructure

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  • Glossary/404 A 404 is a Standard Response Code meaning that the server cannot find the requested resource.
  • Glossary/502 An HTTP error code meaning "Bad Gateway".
  • Glossary/Adobe_Flash Flash is an obsolescent technology developed by Adobe that makes possible rich Web apps, vector ...
  • Glossary/AJAX AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) is a programming practice of combining HTML, CSS, ...
  • Glossary/API An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of features and rules that exist inside a ...
  • Glossary/ARPA .arpa (address and routing parameter area) is a top-level domain used for Internet ...
  • Glossary/Arpanet The ARPAnet (advanced research projects agency network) was an early computer network, ...
  • Glossary/ASCII ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is one of the most popular coding ...
  • Glossary/Bandwidth Bandwidth is the measure of how much information can pass through a data connection in a given ...
  • Glossary/Blink Blink is an open-source browser layout engine developed by Google as part of Chromium (and ...
  • Glossary/Boot2Gecko Boot2Gecko (B2G) is the engineering codename for Firefox OS and refers to builds that haven't ...
  • Glossary/CalDAV CalDAV (Calendaring extensions to WebDAV) is a protocol standardized by the IETF and used ...
  • Glossary/CardDAV CardDAV (vCard Extension to WebDAV) is a protocol standardized by the IETF and used to ...
  • Glossary/CDN A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a group of servers spread out over many locations. These ...
  • Glossary/CORS CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) is a system, consisting of transmitting HTTP headers, ...
  • Glossary/Crawler A web crawler is a program, often called a bot or robot, which systematically browses the Web to ...
  • Glossary/CRLF CR and LF are control characters or bytecode that can be used to mark a line break in a text file.
  • Glossary/CRUD CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) is an acronym for ways one can operate on stored data. It is ...
  • Glossary/CSP A CSP (Content Security Policy) is used to detect and mitigate certain types of website related ...
  • Glossary/DNS DNS (Domain Name System) translates easy-to-recall domain names to the numerical IP addresses ...
  • Glossary/Domain A domain is the part of a computer network in which one entity controls the data processing ...
  • Glossary/Firefox_OS Firefox OS is Mozilla's mobile operating system, based on Linux and Firefox's powerful Gecko ...
  • Glossary/FTU FTU (First Time Use) is the app that loads when you run a newly-installed version of Gecko on a ...
  • Glossary/Gaia The user interface and default application suite of the Firefox OS platform.
  • Glossary/Gecko Gecko is the layout engine developed by the Mozilla Project and used in many apps/devices, ...
  • Glossary/Gonk Gonk is the lower-level operating system of Firefox OS and consists of a Linux kernel (based on ...
  • Glossary/GPU The GPU (or Graphics Processing Unit) is a computer component similar to the CPU (Central ...
  • Glossary/HTTP HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the basic protocol that enables file transfer on the Web. ...
  • Glossary/https HTTPS (HTTP Secure) is an encrypted version of the HTTP protocol. It usually use SSL or TLS to ...
  • Glossary/IANA IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) is a subsidiary of ICANN charged with recording ...
  • Glossary/ICANN ICANN (Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers) is an international nonprofit that ...
  • Glossary/IETF The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a worldwide organization that drafts ...
  • Glossary/IMAP IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is a protocol used to retrieve and store emails. More ...
  • Glossary/IPv4 IPv4 is the fourth version of the communication protocol underlying the Internet and the first ...
  • Glossary/IPv6 IPv6 is the current version of the communication protocol underlying the Internet. Slowly IPv6 ...
  • Glossary/IP_Address An IP address is a number assigned to every device connected to a network that uses the Internet ...
  • Glossary/IRC IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a worldwide chat system requiring an Internet connection and an IRC ...
  • Glossary/ISO ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is a global association that develops ...
  • Glossary/Microsoft_Edge Microsoft Edge is a free-of-cost graphical Web browser bundled with Microsoft Windows and ...
  • Glossary/mime MIME Multipurpose internet mail extensions supports text in other forms beside ASCII and ...
  • Glossary/Mozilla_Firefox Mozilla Firefox is a free open-source browser whose development is overseen by the Mozilla ...
  • Glossary/NAT NAT (Network Address Translation) is a technique for letting multiple computers share an IP ...
  • Glossary/NNTP NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) is a protocol used to transfer Usenet messages from client ...
  • Glossary/Node.js Node.js é um interpretador JavaScript multiplataforma que permite desenvolvedores construírem ...
  • Glossary/Node/networking In networking, a node is a connection point in the network. In physical networks, a node is ...
  • Glossary/non-normative Software specifications often contains information marked as non-normative or informative, which ...
  • Glossary/Normative Normative is a word commonly used in software specifications to denote sections that are ...
  • Glossary/OTA Over The Air (OTA) refers to automatic updating of software on connected devices from a central ...
  • Glossary/P2P P2P (Peer-to-peer) is a computer networking architecture in which all participating nodes ...
  • Glossary/PHP PHP is a server-side scripting language for building web apps and dynamic websites.
  • Glossary/PNG PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a graphics file format that supports lossless data compression.
  • Glossary/POP POP3 (Post Office Protocol) is a very common protocol for getting emails from a mail server over ...
  • Glossary/Presto Presto was the proprietary browser layout engine used to power the Opera browser until version ...
  • Glossary/Protocol A protoco l is a system of rules that define how data is exchanged within or between computers. ...
  • Glossary/RDF RDF (Resource Description Framework) is a language developed by W3C for representing information ...
  • Glossary/Rendering_engine A rendering engine is software that draws text and images on the screen. The engine draws ...
  • Glossary/Repo
  • Glossary/RIL RIL (Radio Interface Layer) is a mobile operating system component which communicates between ...
  • Glossary/Robots.txt Robots.txt is a file which is usually placed in the root of any website. It decides whether ...
  • Glossary/SCTP SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is an IETF standard for a transport protocol which ...
  • Glossary/SDP SDP (Session Description Protocol) is the standard describing a peer-to-peer connection. SDP ...
  • Glossary/Second-level_Domain An SLD (Second Level Domain) is a domain that is hierarchically directly below a TLD.
  • Glossary/Server A hardware server is a shared computer on a network that provides services to clients.  A ...
  • Glossary/Simple_header A simple header (or CORS-safelisted request header) is one of the following HTTP headers :
  • Glossary/SLD An SLD (Second Level Domain) is a domain that is hierarchically directly below a TLD.
  • Glossary/SMTP SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is a protocol used to send a new email.  Like POP3 and ...
  • Glossary/SOAP SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a protocol for transmitting data in XML format. Firefox ...
  • Glossary/STUN STUN (Session Traversal Utilities for NAT) is an auxiliary protocol for transmitting data around ...
  • Glossary/TCP TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is an important network protocol that lets two hosts connect ...
  • Glossary/Telnet Telnet is a command line tool and an underlying TCP/IP protocol for accessing remote computers.
  • Glossary/TLS Transport Layer Security (TLS), previously known as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), is a protocol ...
  • Glossary/Trident Trident (or MSHTML) is a layout engine that powers Internet Explorer.  A Trident fork called ...
  • Glossary/TURN TURN (Traversal Using Relays around NAT) is a protocol enabling a computer to receive and send ...
  • Glossary/UDP UDP (User Datagram Protocol) is a long standing protocol used together with IP for sending data ...
  • Glossary/URL Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a text string specifying where a resource can be found on the ...
  • Glossary/VoIP VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is a technology used to transmit voice messages over IP ...
  • Glossary/WebDAV WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is an HTTP Extension that lets web developers ...
  • Glossary/webm WebM is royatly free and is an open web video format natively supported in Mozilla Firefox.
  • Glossary/webp WebP is a lossless and lossy compression image format developed by Google.
  • Glossary/WebRTC WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is an API that can be used by video-chat, voice-calling, ...
  • Glossary/WebSockets WebSocket is a protocol that allows for a persistent TCP connection between server and client so ...
  • Glossary/Web_standards Web standards are rules established by international standards bodies and defining how how the ...
  • Glossary/World_Wide_Web The World Wide Web —commonly referred to as WWW, W3, or the Web —is an interconnected system of ...
  • Learn/Common_questions This section of the Learning Area is designed to provide answers to common questions that may ...
  • Learn/Common_questions/What_are_hyperlinks Hyperlinks, usually called simply links, are a foundational concept behind the Web. To explain ...
  • Learn/Common_questions/What_is_a_domain_name Domain names are a key part of the Internet infrastructure. They provide a human-readable ...
  • Learn/Common_questions/What_is_a_URL With Hypertext and HTTP, URL is one of the key concepts of the Web. It is the mechanism used by ...
  • Learn/Common_questions/What_is_a_web_server "Web server" can refer to hardware or software, or both of them working together.
  • Learn/Getting_started_with_the_web/How_the_Web_works This theory is not essential to writing web code in the short term, but before long you'll ...