Chapter NINETEEN. Web Servers

TOPICS IN THIS CHAPTER

  • Web Browser and Web Server Functions

  • Desirable Features of a Web Server

  • Web Organizations

  • Interoperability

  • Proxy Servers

  • Clustering and Session Issues

  • Web Services

  • Application Servers

  • Choices

The advent the World Wide Web heralded the rapid democratizing of the Internet. Suddenly, anybody could navigate to documentation on a network. Suddenly, anybody could navigate to documentation online, and the rush of bringing up a Web page for the first time hooked millions of people on the Internet. Those early static brochures were rapidly augmented by program-generated dynamic content that evolved into multitiered client-server applications. Today, the clients are getting thicker. Now, some servers exist only ...

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