Publish a catalog and take orders from customers. Publish interactive programs. Provide your remote sales force easy access to your sales database. Use an order-tracking database. The Web is fundamentally a system of requests and responses.
Web browsers request information by sending a URL to a Web server.
The HTML page can be a static page that has already been formatted and stored in the Web site, a page that the server dynamically creates in response to information provided by the user, or a page that lists the available files and folders on the Web site. Every page on an intranet or on the Internet has a unique URL that identifies it. Web browsers request a page by sending a URL to a Web server. The server uses the information in the URL to locate and display the page. URL syntax is a specific sequence of protocol, domain name, and path to the requested information.