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Introduction to the World Wide Web

Author: Bernard MARTIN

Publication date: May 10, 2001

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2. Basic concepts and mechanisms

2.1 Architecture

The Web is built around a client-server architecture (figure 3 ). Clients send messages to Web servers, which are called HTTP Daemons. Web servers are processes whose essential function is to respond to requests from clients running a browser. These requests may be for the transfer of a file, or for the execution of a program on the server machine (e.g., a database query).

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