2007-03-10 22:29:25 · 2 answers · asked by Tubby 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
The web pages are hosted on a web server. The web server is basically a software that serves web pages to clients. The web server is a term that can also be referred to the actual machine which has a web server installed on it. Internet Information Services (IIS) and Apache are 2 examples of web servers.
Scenario:
1) A client (typically a browswer) requests a page residing on a Web Server Machine
2) The web server gets the page residing in it and send HTML (the page requested) it to the client using HTTP protocol.
Notice that the page might be dynamic meaning that it is not saved on the web server but rather its HTML is created on request (On the run) and sent to the client. This is the case when a page's content is created based on Database content. It is the web server's job to construct the page.
Hope this helps.
2007-03-12 05:21:43 · answer #1 · answered by Smutty 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What?
This is a very general topic, and "web application" can mean a few different things.
Basically anything on the internet that is "scripted" is a web application... that means scripts that are running on the server side (PHP), or on your computer (like javascript).
2007-03-11 15:45:17 · answer #2 · answered by vérité 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋