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Web Technologies - Old Questions

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1.  Explain the web server concept. Why internet is a client/server technology?

10 marks | Asked in 2068

Web server is a program or a computer that can provide services to other programs called clients. A web server can contain one or more websites. A web server processes the incoming requests.

  • The primary function of web server is to store, process and deliver web pages to clients. The communication between client and server takes place using the HTTP. Pages delivered are most frequently HTML documents, which ,may include images, style sheets.
  • A web browser initiates the communication by making a request for a specific resources using HTTP and the server responds with the content of that resources or an error message if unable to do so.

Web server features:

  • Always wait for a request from a client;
  • Serves clients’ requests, then responds with the requested data to clients;
  • A server can communicate with other servers in order to meet a client’s request.

Client-server is a computer model that separates client and server, and usually interlinked using a computer network. Each instance of a client can send data requests to one of the servers online and expect a response. In turn, some of the available servers can accept these requests, process them and return the result to the client. Often clients and servers communicate through a computer network with separate hardware, but the client and server can reside on the same system. The machine is a host server that is running one or more server programs that share their resources with clients. A client does not share its resources, but requests content from a server or service function. Clients, therefore, initiate communication sessions with the servers that wait for incoming requests.

Internet is a client/server technology because most services that are accessed via the Internet work on the client/server model. In that, we have a server which provides a service, while clients connect to the server to make requests regarding the service. A web site is an example: a web server holds the contents of the web site. Our web browser is a client, which we can use to connect to web servers to ask them for information, or to perform services on our behalf.