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  2. PHP - Wikipedia

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    PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development. [8] It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. [9] [10] The PHP reference implementation is now produced by the PHP Group. [11] PHP was originally an abbreviation of Personal Home Page, [12] [13] but it now ...

  3. HTML - Wikipedia

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    The text between < html > and </ html > describes the web page, and the text between < body > and </ body > is the visible page content. The markup text < title > This is a title </ title > defines the browser page title shown on browser tabs and window titles and the tag < div > defines a division of the page used for easy styling.

  4. HTTPS - Wikipedia

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    Insecure networks, such as public Wi-Fi access points, allow anyone on the same local network to packet-sniff and discover sensitive information not protected by HTTPS. Additionally, some free-to-use and paid WLAN networks have been observed tampering with webpages by engaging in packet injection in order to serve their own ads on other websites.

  5. Open-source software - Wikipedia

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    Under Perens' definition, open source is a broad software license that makes source code available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent restrictions on the use and modification of the code. It is an explicit "feature" of open source that it puts very few restrictions on the use or distribution by any organization or user, in order ...

  6. Cryptography - Wikipedia

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    Lorenz cipher machine, used in World War II to encrypt communications of the German High Command Cryptography, or cryptology (from Ancient Greek: κρυπτός, romanized: kryptós "hidden, secret"; and γράφειν graphein, "to write", or -λογία -logia, "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversarial behavior ...

  7. Version control - Wikipedia

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    Version control. In software engineering, version control (also known as revision control, source control, or source code management) is the act of controlling computer files and versions of files. Primarily files are source code text files, but generally can be any type of file. Version control is a component of software configuration management.

  8. Source code - Wikipedia

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    In computing, source code, or simply code or source, is text (usually plain text) that conforms to a human-readable programming language and specifies the behavior of a computer. A programmer writes code to produce a program that runs on a computer. Since a computer, at base, only understands machine code, source must be translated in order to ...

  9. Web scraping - Wikipedia

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    Scraping a web page involves fetching it and extracting from it. Fetching is the downloading of a page (which a browser does when a user views a page). Therefore, web crawling is a main component of web scraping, to fetch pages for later processing. Once fetched, extraction can take place.