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

The usap.gov website
Sample form. The form is enclosed in an HTML table for visual layout.
The nasa.gov home page in 2015
URL beginning with the HTTP scheme and the WWW domain name label
Registration form of PHP-based e-commerce web-shop software ZenCart
Server-side programming language usage in 2016.
Tim Berners-Lee
An HTTP/1.1 request made using telnet. The request message, response header section, and response body are highlighted.

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

- Form (HTML)

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.

- Website

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.

- Hypertext Transfer Protocol

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.

- Website

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

- Form (HTML)

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.

- Hypertext Transfer Protocol
The usap.gov website

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PC clients communicating via network with a web server serving static content only.

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PC clients communicating via network with a web server serving static content only.
The inside and front of a Dell PowerEdge server, a computer designed to be mounted in a rack mount environment. It is often used as a web server.
Multiple web servers may be used for a high traffic website.
Web server farm with thousands of web servers used for super-high traffic websites.
ADSL modem running an embedded web server serving dynamic web pages used for modem configuration.
First web proposal (1989) evaluated as "vague but exciting..."
The world's first web server, a NeXT Computer workstation with Ethernet, 1990. The case label reads: "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!"
Sun's Cobalt Qube 3 – a computer server appliance (2002, discontinued)
PC clients connected to a web server via Internet
PC clients communicating via network with a web server serving static and dynamic content.
Directory listing dynamically generated by a web server.
Chart: Market share of all sites for most popular web servers 2005–2021
Chart: Market share of all sites for most popular web servers 1995–2005

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.

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

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.