Overview of Web Server Protocol Information

The Web Posting Wizard could not automatically detect the posting protocol for your server.  If you are not sure what protocol your server supports, try one of the following.

•	HTTP is the protocol that web browsers use to get information from the Web Servers. Most World Wide Web servers currently support HTTP 1.0 protocol, which does not allow people to post web pages to the server. However, if your server supports HTTP 1.1 protocol, your server support web posting over HTTP.

•	FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a protocol for transferring files between computers. It is supported on many UNIX systems. If your web server runs on a UNIX machine, you will probably be able to post web pages over the FTP protocol.

•	If your computer is on a LAN and accesses your Web server with Windows 95 networking (for example, if you can view the computer running the web server by using Network Neighborhood), you can probably post by using the protocol that you use to access your local area network.

For more information, contact the administrator for the Web server.


Overview of Base Path Information

The world wide web servers usually share information starting from a specific folder on the server. For example, the URL http://www.isp.com/~pat/hello.html might correspond to a file /usr/pat/public_html/hello.html on the server. In other words, http://www.isp.com/~pat refers to /usr/pat/public_html.

The administrator for your world wide web server decides which folder a given URL refers to. For more information, contact your world wide web server administrator to get this information. You may also proceed with the defaults.


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