A report on Web server and Form (HTML)

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

Sample form. The form is enclosed in an HTML table for visual layout.

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.

Registration form of PHP-based e-commerce web-shop software ZenCart

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

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.

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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).

- Form (HTML)

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PHP

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General-purpose scripting language geared toward web development.

This is an example of PHP code for the WordPress content management system.

A "Hello World" application in PHP 7.4 running on its built-in development server

Example output of the phpinfo function in PHP 7.1

A broad overview of the LAMP software bundle, displayed here together with Squid

Dynamic web page: example of server-side scripting (PHP and MySQL)

PHP code is usually processed on a web server by a PHP interpreter implemented as a module, a daemon or as a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) executable.

He extended them to work with web forms and to communicate with databases, and called this implementation "Personal Home Page/Forms Interpreter" or PHP/FI.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

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Application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

URL beginning with the HTTP scheme and the WWW domain name label

An HTTP/1.1 request made using telnet. The request message, response header section, and response body are highlighted.

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.

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.

Website

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Server-side programming language usage in 2016.

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.

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.

Dynamic web page

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Web page whose construction is controlled by an application server processing server-side scripts.

When a request to a dynamic web page or resource is made, the application server processes the request using its server-side language.

Using server-side scripting to change the supplied page source between pages, adjusting the sequence or reload of the web pages or web content supplied to the browser. Server responses may be determined by such conditions as data in a posted HTML form, parameters in the URL, the type of browser being used, the passage of time, or a database or server state.

A program running on a web server (server-side scripting) is used to generate the web content on various web pages, manage user sessions, and control workflow.

Common Gateway Interface

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In computing, Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is an interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program, typically to process user requests.

A typical use case occurs when a web user submits a web form on a web page that uses CGI.