Web server

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"Web Server" is ambiguous term, that describes one of two things:

  • A piece of software that can handle HTTP requests in order to generate a web page in HTML (sometimes in other languages). Various types of web servers on the Internet make the World Wide Web possible, and serve its content to various people's web browsers.
  • A specialized computer (or group of computers - see cluster) whose main task is to host web sites running web server software that handles the HTTP requests.

Web servers can be connected to the worldwide Internet for usage by the general public or to a local internal network such as a company for internal usage (called an intranet).

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