A report on Web server, Hypertext Transfer Protocol and CERN httpd
A web server is computer software and underlying hardware that accepts requests via HTTP (the network protocol created to distribute web content) or its secure variant HTTPS.
- Web serverCERN httpd (later also known as W3C httpd) is an early, now discontinued, web server (HTTP) daemon originally developed at CERN from 1990 onwards by Tim Berners-Lee, Ari Luotonen and Henrik Frystyk Nielsen.
- CERN httpdA web browser, for example, may be the client whereas a process, named web server, running on a computer hosting one or more websites may be the server.
- Hypertext Transfer ProtocolThis was the official birth of CERN httpd.
- Web serverThe first web server went live in 1990.
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol0 related topics with Alpha
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