A report on Web server, Web browser and Hypertext Transfer Protocol

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

Traditional browser arrangement: UI features above page content

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.

Nicola Pellow and Tim Berners-Lee in 1992

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

Multiple web servers may be used for a high traffic website.

Marc Andreessen, lead developer of Mosaic and Navigator, in 2007

Web server farm with thousands of web servers used for super-high traffic websites.

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

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

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

A user agent, commonly a web browser or web crawler, initiates communication by making a request for a web page or other resource using HTTP, and the server responds with the content of that resource or an error message.

- Web server

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.

- Web browser

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

- Web browser

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

4 related topics with Alpha

HTTPS

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

In 2016, a campaign by the Electronic Frontier Foundation with the support of web browser developers led to the protocol becoming more prevalent.

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).

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.

The app used on these devices is called a web browser.

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.

Web cache

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System for optimizing the World Wide Web.

The caching of images and other files can result in less overall delay when browsing the Web.

A forward cache is a cache outside the web server's network, e.g. in the client's web browser, in an ISP, or within a corporate network.

A proxy server sitting between the client and web server can evaluate HTTP headers and choose whether to store web content.

HTML

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The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.

Web browsers receive HTML documents from a web server or from local storage and render the documents into multimedia web pages.

However, they are most often delivered either by HTTP from a web server or by email.