Technology

If you thought you could never afford the fancy laptop you had just seen in a store, you are certainly wrong. The laptop may have looked fancy and may even have been displayed in a nice manner. However, there is every possibility that these laptops are being sold for under $400. The retailer is...

The process of converting programming strings into URL format is known as URL Encoding. Some characters are not able to be part of a URL. For example, the space key cannot be read by a URL so it should be substituted with another character because URLs can only be sent over the internet if they use...

A proxy is a program or computer system that acts as an intermediary for clients who are seeking resources from the web. The client will connect to the proxy, usually requesting a service like a connection, file, web page, or some other resource from another server. The proxy service will then...

There are a number of internet services that actively monitor the web for reports of unsolicited email traffic or SPAM. Once a website has been found distributing spam, the service will publicly list them as blacklisted in a measure to combat SPAM. Services like Yahoo and Google use blacklisting...

WHOIS is a query and response protocol which is often used to query databases in order to determine the assignee or registrant of Internet resources, such as an autonomous system number, IP address block, or domain name. IP WHOIS lookups are usually performed using a command line application, but...