(Computers) program that provides Web pages; software program which works as a daemon serving web documents
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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