What is a Web server?

[Joyadelfin]

Hello friends,


I want to know that What is a Web server?

[Sreesri]

Web servers are not only used for serving the World Wide Web. They can also be found embedded in devices such as printers, routers, webcams and serving only a local network.

[vino]

A Web server is a system that delivers content or services to end users over the Internet. A Web server consists of a physical server, server operating system (OS) and software used to facilitate HTTP communication. A Web server is also known as an Internet server.

The most simple definition is that a Web server runs a website by returning HTML files over an HTTP connection. This definition may have been true in the early days of the Internet, but the line has blurred between websites, Web applications, and Web services, etc.

[vladimir11]

A Web server is a program that uses HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) to serve the files that form Webpages to users, in response to their requests, which are forwarded by their computers' HTTP clients. Dedicated computers and appliances may be referred to as Web servers as well.