httpd

HTTP server, server which transfers information to a user from World Wide Web sites on the Internet (Computers)

Httpd stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Daemon (i.e. web server).The implied meaning can be:The Apache HTTP Server.The Lighttpd HTTP server.The Nginx HTTP and reverse proxy serverThe NCSA HTTPd HTTP server.The CERN HTTPd HTTP server.The Null httpd HTTP server.The Thttpd HTTP server.The TUX web server aka kHTTPdThe Canopy HTTPd HTTP server.You might also want to check a Comparison of web servers
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The term web server can mean one of two things:A computer program that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients, which are known as web browsers, and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data contents, which usually are web pages such as HTML documents and linked objects (images, etc.).A computer that runs a computer program which provides the functionality described in the first sense of the term.
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<World-Wide Web> (Hypertext transfer protocol daemon).
An HTTP/1.0-compatible server, written by Rob McCool robm@ncsa.uiuc.edu of NCSA, for making hypertext and other documents available to World-Wide Web browsers.
HTTPd is designed to be small and fast and to work with most HTTP/0.9 and HTTP/1.0 browsers. You can customise your server to execute searches and handle HTML forms. It also supports server side include files, allowing you to include the output of commands or other files in HTML documents.
The current (1994-08-08) version is 1.3.
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/Overview.html.
E-mail: httpd@ncsa.uiuc.edu.
(1995-01-16)