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Web client, web browser and web servers

• The Web is a client-server application:


• Web browsers are clients which send requests to Web servers, which send responses back.
• Web client: The client side (user side) of the Web. A Web client typically refers to the
Web browser in the user's machine or mobile device.
• Web browser: A software tool that retrieves and displays web pages.
• Web server: A computer set up to respond to requests for web pages.

Difference between Web Browser and Web Server


••
• For Internet communication, we require a web browser and web servers.
• Web browsers and servers play an important role in establishing the
connection. The client sends requests for web documents or services.
• The message that goes from the web browser to the web server is known as
an HTTP request.
• When the web server receives the request, it searches its stores to find the
appropriate page. If the web server can locate the page, it parcels up to the
HTML contained within (using some transport layer protocol), addresses
these parcels to the browser (using HTTP), and transmits them back across
the network.
• If the web server is unable to find the requested page, it sends a page
containing an error message (i.e. Error 404 – page not found) and it parcels
up to the dispatches that page to the browser.
• This message received by the web browser by the server is called the HTTP
response.
The main differences between the Web browser and web servers are:

S.
No. Parameters Web Browser Web Server

Web Browser is an
Application program that A web server is a program or
displays a World wide web the computer that provide
1. Basics
document. It usually uses services to other programs
the internet service to called client.
access the document.

The Web server accepts,


The Web browser requests approves, and responds to the
2. Function the server for the web request made by the web
documents and services. browser for a web document
or service.
S.
No. Parameters Web Browser Web Server

A web browser is a
The web server is responsible
programme that uses
3. Responsibility for connecting websites and
websites to search the
web browsers.
internet for information.

The web browser acts as an The web server is a software


interface between the or a system which maintain
4. Interface server and the client and the web applications, generate
displays a web document response and accept clients
to the client. data.

Components of web Components of web server


Components of browser architecture- a architecture- hardware,
5.
architecture controller, client program, operating system software,
and interpreters. and Web server software.

The web browser sends an The web server gets HTTP


HTTP request
6. HTTP request and gets an requests and sends HTTP
and response
HTTP response. responses.

There exist three types of


Doesn’t exist any
Processing processing models for web
7. processing model for the
Model servers i.e Process-based,
web browser.
Thread based, and Hybrid.

Web browser stores the Web servers provide an area


8. Storing data cookies for different to store and organize the
websites. pages of the website.

The web server can be a


remote machine placed on the
The web browser is
other side of your network or
9. Installation installed on the client’s
even on the other end of the
computer.
globe, or it is your very own
personal computer at home.

Examples of Web browsers


are Mozilla Firefox, An example of a Web Server
10. Examples
Google Chrome, and is Apache Server.
Internet Explorer.

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