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4.  List the common application of web server.

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.

Here is the list of common application of web server

• A web server‘s fundamental job is to accept and fulfill requests from clients for static content from a website (HTML pages, files, images, video, and so on).
• The client is almost always a browser or mobile application and the request takes the form of a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) message, as does the web server’s response.
• web server in Java is used to host Java web application.
• Web Server supports Servlets and JSP.