A report on Website, Web server, Form (HTML) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol

A website (also written as web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server.

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.

This element specifies the communication endpoint the data entered into the form should be submitted to, and the method of submitting the data, or.

A high-traffic Internet website might handle requests with hundreds of servers that run on racks of high-speed computers.

Before the introduction of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), other protocols such as File Transfer Protocol and the gopher protocol were used to retrieve individual files from a server.

A 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.

These capabilities, along with the multimedia features of NCSA's Mosaic browser (also able to manage HTML FORMs in order to send data to web server) highlighted the potential of web technology for publishing and distributed computing applications.

Dynamic sites can be interactive by using HTML forms, storing and reading back browser cookies, or by creating a series of pages that reflect the previous history of clicks.

Forms are usually combined with programs written in various programming language to allow developers to create dynamic web sites.

CGIs may be written in other languages than Perl (compatibility with multiple languages is a design goal of the CGI protocol) and there are other ways to make Perl scripts interoperate with a web server than using CGI (such as FastCGI, Plack or Apache's mod_perl).

Some web applications need to manage user sessions, so they implement states, or server side sessions, using for instance HTTP cookies or hidden variables within web forms.