Server market orientation

Server market orientation

WWW server software comes in all shapes and sizes. Web browsers that support S-HTTP can be used with servers that support S-HTTP to produce secure channel.

Netscape

Netscape has 3 commerce server strategies around 3 basic components: Netscape client products, Netscape commerce platform and Netscape commercial applications.

Netscape client products include Netscape navigator client products referred as browsers. To develop commercial web sites, Netscape offers Netscape commerce platform, a set of servers.

The two basic applications systems include Netscape publishing system and Netscape merchant system.

Netscape produced SSL, a method of obtaining a secure channel between client and server at a time when others were working on a different solution S-HTTP.

Netscape Navigator

The most basic web browser must be able to handle three protocols:

URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

This is to format defining syntax for pointing at Internet and www resources.

HTTP(Hypertext Transfer Protocol)

This is the protocol that defines interaction between web browser and server.

HTML(Hypertext Markup Language)
This protocol defines the way web documents are expected to be displayed.