A report on HTTPS, Hypertext Transfer Protocol and Web server

URL beginning with the HTTPS scheme and the WWW domain name label
PC clients communicating via network with a web server serving static content only.
URL beginning with the HTTP scheme and the WWW domain name label
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.
Tim Berners-Lee
Multiple web servers may be used for a high traffic website.
An HTTP/1.1 request made using telnet. The request message, response header section, and response body are highlighted.
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

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

- HTTPS

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 server

Its secure variant named HTTPS is used by more than 79% of websites.

- Hypertext Transfer Protocol

This is the case with HTTP transactions over the Internet, where typically only the server is authenticated (by the client examining the server's certificate).

- HTTPS

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

2 related topics with Alpha

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Traditional browser arrangement: UI features above page content

Web browser

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Application software for accessing the World Wide Web or a local website.

Application software for accessing the World Wide Web or a local website.

Traditional browser arrangement: UI features above page content
Nicola Pellow and Tim Berners-Lee in 1992
Marc Andreessen, lead developer of Mosaic and Navigator, in 2007

When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the web browser retrieves the necessary content from a web server and then displays the page on the user's device.

In Hypertext Transfer Protocol technical texts, web browsers (and other clients) are commonly referred to as user agents.

In the case of secure mode (HTTPS), the communication between the browser and the web server is encrypted for the purposes of security and privacy.

Virtual hosting

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Method for hosting multiple domain names on a single server (or pool of servers).

Method for hosting multiple domain names on a single server (or pool of servers).

The term virtual hosting is usually used in reference to web servers but the principles do carry over to other Internet services.

A technical prerequisite needed for name-based virtual hosts is a web browser with HTTP/1.1 support (commonplace today) to include the target hostname in the request.

There is the HTTP Secure special port 443 that needs special configuration (see Server Name Indication).