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5-3 Terminology
HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer, or HTTP over SSL):
HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer, or HTTP over SSL) is a Web
protocol developed by Netscape and built into its browser that encrypts and decrypts user page
requests as well as the pages that are returned by the Web server. HTTPS is really just the use of
Netscape's Secure Socket Layer (
SSL) as a sublayer under its regular HTTP application layering.
(HTTPS uses
port 443 instead of HTTP port 80 in its interactions with the lower layer, TCP/IP.) SSL
uses a 40-bit key size for the RC4 stream encryption
algorithm, which is considered an adequate
degree of encryption for commercial exchange.
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol):
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a way for a program running in one kind of
operating
system (such as Windows 2000) to communicate with a progam in the same or another kind of an
operating system (such as
Linux) by using the World Wide Web's Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(
HTTP)and its Extensible Markup Language (XML) as the mechanisms for information exchange.
Since Web
protocols are installed and available for use by all major operating system platforms,
HTTP and XML provide an already at-hand solution to the problem of how programs running under
different operating systems in a network can communicate with each other. SOAP specifies exactly
how to encode an HTTP header and an XML file so that a program in one computer can call a program
in another computer and pass it information. It also specifies how the called program can return a
response.
MIB (Management Information Base):
A management information base (MIB) is a formal description of a set of network
objects that can be
managed using the Simple Network Management Protocol (
SNMP). The format of the MIB is defined
as part of the SNMP. (All other MIBs are extensions of this basic management information base.)
MIB-I refers to the initial MIB definition; MIB-II refers to the current definition. SNMPv2 includes MIB-II
and adds some new objects.
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