CP202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Barbra Streisand, Kenneth Adelman, Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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Web servers: web servers, web server refers to both: Computer that hosts web sites (may have other duties- ftp, databases, etc. ) Software that actually serves up the pages, such as apache and. When we talk about web servers, we will be referring to the software, not the computer that hosts web sites: software is called http server because it uses the hypertext transfer. Protocol to serve web pages to browsers: web server features, web servers can: Dynamic" web pages where data is taken from a database or other source. Keep logs of requests and responses: gives the person the ability to see the problems when people visit the pages. Authenticate users: login and it recognizes who you are. Provide encrypted access: managing a server, servers allow you to: Transfer pages to and from the server, usually with something like ftp (file transfer protocol) Set up a folder structure for your website.
