Web server
The term web server can mean one of two things:
- a computer responsible for serving web pages, mostly HTML documents, via the HTTP protocol to clients, mostly web browsers;
- a software program that is working as a daemon serving web documents.
The most common HTTP servers are:
The most commonly-used web server, Apache, with over 60% of market share as of March 2003, is available from the Apache Software Foundation.
You can find the current web servers statistics from the
Netcraft Web Server Survey.
See also
Referenced By
ADSL | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line | Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line | Common Gateway Interface | HTTP cookie | Internet cookie | J2EE reference model | List of basic software engineering topics | List of software engineering topics | NCSA HTTPd | On the fly | Real-time computing
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