Computer Applications
Discuss the functioning of a web browser and a web server. Also give some examples of web browsers and web servers.
Answer
A World Wide Web client is called a web browser and a World Wide Web server is called a web server. The functioning of a web browser and a web server is as follows:
- The user requests a resource by providing the URL, say
http://www.edupillar.com/index.htmto the web browser. - The web browser generates HTTP request which is sent to the web server whose domain name is
www.edupillar.comvia Internet. - The web server then fetches the page named
index.htmand sends it to the requesting browser. - The web browser displays the web page to the user.
Some commonly used web browsers are Google Chrome, Mosaic, Netscape, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera etc.
Some commonly used web servers are Apache Webserver, Apache Tomcat, Webserver IIS, The Lighttpd Server, Jigsaw web server, Sun Java system web server etc.
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