The nuts and bolts of e-commerce

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Copyright
Dedication
A Few Words Before You Begin...
Acknowledgements
Contents
1. The Wonderful World Wide Web
	Hyperlinks and HTML
	Web Servers
	Our First Protocol for the Net—HTTP
	Summary
2. Internet Addressing, the Hard Way: The IP Story
	Internet Addressing Using IP Addresses
	IPv6
	Summary
3. TCP/IP: The Initials of the Internet
	Packet Switching
	Handling Transmission Errors through Packet Switching
	Efficient Routing Using Packet Switching
	Transmission Control Protocol, or simply ‘TCP’
	The TCP/IP Suite of Protocols
	Summary
4. Internet Addressing, the Easy Way—The Domain Name System
	The Domain Name System or ‘DNS’
	The DNS Server
	Top-Level Domain Names
	URLs
	Summary
5. The Stunning World of Graphics—and Other Media
	Graphics: The Bandwidth Problem
	Compressing Graphics with ‘GIF’
	Compressing Photographs with ‘JPEG’
	Video Compression
	Caching
	Summary
6. Building Dynamic Sites—The Database Way
	The Need for Databases
	Dynamic and Static Sites
	Database Normalisation
	Common Gateway Interface or CGI
	The 3-tier Architecture
	Dynamic Sites and Speed
	Summary
7. The Magic of Java
	Java !
	Server Side Computing—The Problems
	Client Side Computing
	Summary
8. How Java Works
	The Portability Problem
	How Standard is Java?
	The Need for JavaScript
	Summary
9. Back to the Web Server—Server Side Languages
	The Need for Server Side Computing
	Active Server Pages and Java Server Pages
	Summary
10. The Building Blocks of the Net—Component Based Development
	The Need for Components
	Java Beans
	Summary
11. Enter the Big Guns—Application Servers
	Application Servers
	Remember Me?
	The 4-Tier Architecture
	Simplifying Database Access
	Load Balancing
	DCOM
	Summary
12. Internet Security Made Simple
	Security Concerns on the Internet
	Client End Security
	Server End Security: The Wonderful World of Firewalls
	Summary
13. Internet Security Made “Not So Simple”—Encryption
	The Four Problems of Message Security
	Confidentiality and Encryption
	Public Key Cryptography
	Summary
14. The Wonderful World of Digital Signatures
	The Integrity Problem
	The Digital Signature
	Summary
15. The Final Frontier—Digital Certificates and More
	Authentication and Digital Certificates
	Non–Repudiation
	Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
	40 bit and 128 bit Keys
	Where Should We Use Security? And Where Shouldn’t We?
	Summary
16. Money, Money, Money—Payment on the Net
	Credit Cards in the Physical World
	Credit Cards in the Cyber World
	What Happens Back-End
	The Electronic Wallet
	Security Once Again
	Summary
17. And This is What We Have Learnt
	A Bird’s Eye View
	Good Bye