Glossary
- handles
- Small squares that appear on the corners and sides of a selected visual
part. Handles are used to resize parts. See also primary
selection.
- host variable
- A variable in an SQL statement used for substituting data values into the
statement at execution time. Host variable names begin with a colon and
cannot contain double-byte characters.
- hotlink
- In Dynamic Data Exchange, a request by a DDE client to a DDE server to be
notified immediately when an particular data item changes, and to include with
that notification the value of the changed data item. Contrast with
warmlink, coldlink.
- HTTP
- See Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
- HTTP request
- A transaction initiated by a Web browser and adhering to the
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The server usually
responds with HTML data, but can send other kinds of objects as well.
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- An Internet-based standard that describes the way in which Web clients and
servers interact. The HTTP protocol supports stateless transactions,
each consisting of a request from the client and a response from the
server.
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