Making the Net Work: Clients and Servers
The key to doing anything on the Net is understanding two little words: “client” and “server.” Figure 1.2 illustrates the relationship between clients and servers.
Figure 1.2. From your computer, you use a set of client programs, each of which accesses a different type of server computer on the Net.
Most of the information you will access through the Internet is stored on computers called servers. A server can be any type of computer; what makes it a server is the role it plays: It stores information for use by clients.
A client is a computer—or, more accurately, a particular computer program—that knows ...
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