Today we shift back to email . We recently discussed SMTP , so you should know a bit about how email moves across the Internet . But SMTP, as it was initially conceived, was a pure text-based system. Today we want to send far more than that using email, Read More...

Today we shift to a technology related to the World Wide Web . This technology is actually a programming language known as Java , and it is the magic that makes a lot of the advanced capability of the WWW possible. In today's PodSnack, I'll explain Read More...

Today we take on email, but this time by looking at the primary protocol used for sending email over the Internet : the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). I hope you find it informative! As always, you can listen to (or download) the PodSnack by clicking Read More...

My desk is overflowing, and I have to get back to my development work, so this will be short and sweet. Today I'm going to talk to you about the key protocol that makes the World Wide Web possible. It's called the Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( Read More...

Let's go back to the Internet and look at yet another Application Layer protocol: Telnet . Telnet is a virtual terminal application that operates on the client/server model. Running over TCP to ensure end-to-end reliability, and using TCP Port 23 Read More...

Let's go back to the Internet and look at yet another Application Layer protocol: Telnet . Telnet is a virtual terminal application that operates on the client/server model. Running over TCP to ensure end-to-end reliability, and using TCP Port 23 Read More...