Server

• general purpose data delivery vehicle

• a program (daemon, httpd):

  • responds to an incoming TCP connection and provides a service to the client
  • runs independently

• Web servers:

  • do NOT validate HTML code (parse documents)
  • do NOT check links
  • follow MIME rules (without checking file content)

• Web site = host + Web server + information (file system)

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