The Web in your briefcase, or, experiences with a portable Web

Ken Yap CSIRO Division of Information Technology Locked Bag 17, North Ryde Email: ken@syd.dit.csiro.au Home page: Ken Yap

Abstract

Around mid-1995 our marketing manager made a request to have a notebook computer with a self-contained Web for demonstrations "on the road". This would be a notebook computer that would have a client and Web server containing various pages captured from the real World-Wide-Web and would serve up these pages as if the notebook was connected to the Internet. The various tribulations encountered in the installation and testing of the software and hardware, and their resolution reveal details about how the Web protocols and various Web software work. It also demonstrates how information and services are increasingly interdependent as they get tied into the World Wide Web.

Keywords

WorldWideWeb, Web server, HTTP, Unix, Networking, SLIP

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