A report on Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Web server and Virtual hosting

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

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

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

- Virtual hosting

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.

- Virtual hosting

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

Since early 1996, major web browsers and web server developers also started to implement new features specified by pre-standard HTTP/1.1 drafts specifications. End-user adoption of the new versions of browsers and servers was rapid. In March 1996, one web hosting company reported that over 40% of browsers in use on the Internet used the new HTTP/1.1 header "Host" to enable virtual hosting. That same web hosting company reported that by June 1996, 65% of all browsers accessing their servers were pre-standard HTTP/1.1 compliant.

- Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Virtual hosting: to be able to serve many websites (domain names) using only one IP address.

- Web server

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

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

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

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).

In the past, this meant that it was not feasible to use name-based virtual hosting with HTTPS.