A report on Web server, Website and Hypertext Transfer Protocol

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.

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

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

Server-side programming language usage in 2016.

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 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.

- Website

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

- Web server

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

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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.

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.

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

Form (HTML)

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Sent to a server for processing.

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

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

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

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).