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Glossary: Glossary of common terms

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	WAF by Leon Stringer - Saturday, February 1, 2025, 2:29 PM
	A web application firewall (WAF) is a specific form of application firewall that filters, monitors, and blocks HTTP traffic to and from a web service. By inspecting HTTP traffic, it can prevent attacks exploiting a web application's known vulnerabilities, such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), file inclusion, and improper system configuration.

	WAMP by Colin Fraser - Friday, September 25, 2009, 3:17 PM
	WAMP = Windows - Apache - MySQL - PHP configuration of the Moodle environment.

	Web Developer Extension for Firefox by David Scotson - Wednesday, January 19, 2005, 6:11 PM
	This is an add-on or extension for the Firefox browser that adds a variety of tools useful for web developers manipulating HTML and CSS. It is available from Mozilla Update though the most recent version is usually available from the author's website Highly recommended.

	WebDAV by Kingsley Kerce - Monday, July 26, 2004, 11:54 PM
	WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning" and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allow users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers. WebDAV is sometimes shortened to DAV. Since at least 1998, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups have published RFCs on WebDAV and related issues. These publications are considered specifications for versioning, access control, searching, and ordering of resources. Many of the specifications have been implemented in software that is present in many open source and commercial offerings. See webdav.org for more information. Also, search the web for articles about WebDAV in the popular computing press.

	WIMP by Usman Asar - Thursday, December 17, 2015, 7:45 AM
	Its a combination of server setup for any website/web based application, where Operating platform (Windows), web server (IIS), database servers (MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server) application server (PHP), hence the term WIMP Other similar combination based on Windows platform can be WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP).

	WIP by Pablo Etcheverry - Tuesday, February 3, 2004, 11:12 PM
	Work In Progress.

	wwwroot by Martin Dougiamas - Wednesday, November 19, 2003, 4:28 PM
	This is the setting inside config.php that tells Moodle where it is installed. It has to be a full URL to the web site's "natural" address. Some web sites may work under more than one address (for example www.example.com and example.com) but you should pick the main one.

	WYSIWYG by Jon Witts - Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 9:12 PM
	WYSIWYG is an acronym for "What You See Is What You Get".