Suse Linux 9.3 For Dummies- P12

Suse Linux 9.3 For Dummies- P12:This part is all about getting you started on your wayto a lasting relationship with SUSE Linux. Before youcan begin your SUSE Linux experience, I spend a chapterexplaining what SUSE Linux is and what you can do withSUSE Linux (pretty much anything you can do with a PCthat runs Windows).
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Suse Linux 9.3 For Dummies- P12 Chapter 9: Browsing the Web 145 HTML anchor: Optional part of the URL that makes the Web browser jump to a specific location in the file. If this part starts with a question mark (?) instead of a hash mark (#), the browser takes the text following the question mark to be a query. The Web server returns information based on such queries. Web servers and Web browsers The Web server serves up the Web pages, and the Web browser downloads them and displays them to the user. That’s pretty much the story with these two cooperating software packages that make the Web work. In a typical scenario, the user sits in front of a computer that’s connected to the Internet and runs a Web browser. When the user clicks a link or types a URL into the Web browser, the browser connects to the Web server and requests a document from the server. The Web server sends the document (usually in HTML format) and ends the connection. The Web browser inter- prets and displays the HTML document with text, graphics, and multimedia (if applicable). Figure 9-2 illustrates this typical scenario of a user browsing the Web. Web Server Web server sends back the requested Web page Internet Web Browser HTTP Figure 9-2: The Web browser Web browser connects to the server and requests requests a Web page documents and the Web server sends them. UserPlease purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. 146 Part III: Doing Stuff with SUSE The Web browser’s connection to the Web server ends after the server sends the document. When the user browses through the downloaded document and clicks another hypertext link, the Web browser again connects to the Web server named in the hypertext link, downloads the document, ends the connection, and displays the new document. That’s how the user can move from one document to another with ease. A Web browser can do more than simply “talk” HTTP with the Web server — in fact, Web browsers can also download documents using FTP and many have integrated mail and newsreaders as well. Web Browsing in SUSE Linux Web browsing is fun because so many of today’s Web pages are so full of graph- ics and multimedia. Then there’s the element of surprise — you can click a link and end up at an unexpected Web page. Links are the most curious (and useful) aspect of the Web. You can start at a page that shows today’s weather and a click later, you can be reading this week’s issue of Time magazine. To browse the Web, all you need is a Web browser and an Internet connec- tion. I assume that you’ve already taken care of the Internet connection (see Chapter 7 if you haven’t yet set up your Internet connection), so all you need to know are the Web browsers in SUSE Linux. Depending on the desktop — KDE or GNOME — that you elected to install in SUSE Linux, you have different choices for Web browsers: KDE desktop uses Konqueror as the default Web browser. Konqueror also doubles as a file manager and a universal viewer. GNOME provides a choice of three Web browsers: Mozilla, Epiphany, and Firefox: • Mozilla: The reincarnati ...