Introduction

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n this infrastructure perspective, we will look at the process of handling the production of a page from the perspective of the HTTP protocol. Essentially, we think of the web site as one huge function, an HTTP as a mechanism for calling that function with various arguments.

This path does not delve too deeply into exactly how a transaction is handled. Instead, it focuses on the kinds of data flowing into and out of the web site. This is important information, as any data flowing into the web site should be regarded as untrustworthy (having come in over the network).