A report on Web browser and Web server

Traditional browser arrangement: UI features above page content
PC clients communicating via network with a web server serving static content only.
Nicola Pellow and Tim Berners-Lee in 1992
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.
Marc Andreessen, lead developer of Mosaic and Navigator, in 2007
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
Chart: Market share of all sites for most popular web servers 1995–2005

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

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
Traditional browser arrangement: UI features above page content

7 related topics with Alpha

Overall

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

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

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
Tim Berners-Lee
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.

Tim Berners-Lee in April 2009

HTML

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Tim Berners-Lee in April 2009
Logo of HTML5
HTML element content categories

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.

The home page of a website displayed in a web browser

Web page

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Hypertext document on the World Wide Web.

Hypertext document on the World Wide Web.

The home page of a website displayed in a web browser

Web pages are delivered by a web server to the user and displayed in a web browser.

The usap.gov website

Website

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The usap.gov website
The nasa.gov home page in 2015
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.

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

HTTPS

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Extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

Extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

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

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).

Web cache

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System for optimizing the World Wide Web.

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.

Netscape

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American independent computer services company with headquarters in Mountain View, California and then Dulles, Virginia.

American independent computer services company with headquarters in Mountain View, California and then Dulles, Virginia.

The original green and purple Mozilla mascot, a Godzilla-like lizard which represented the company's goal of producing the browser that would be the "Mosaic killer"
Netscape logo 2005–2007, still used in some portals
Netscape Communicator 4.61 for OS/2 Warp
Netscape Navigator 9.0

The internal codename for the company's browser was Mozilla, which stood for "Mosaic killer", as the company's goal was to displace NCSA Mosaic as the world's number one web browser.

Netscape FastTrack and Enterprise web servers