internet

Web Clients and Servers When you use your internet connection to become part of the WWW your computer becomes a web client. Your web browser software is the software that makes your computer work as a web client. Computers that are connected to the internet and that contain files that their owners have made publicly available through their internet connections are called web servers. Client server architecture may be used on LANs, WANs and on the web. The main characteristic of client/server architecture is the division of workload between the server and client. The client computer request services including printing, information retrieval and database access. The server is responsible for processing the client’s requests. Besides receiving and interpreting requests from the client, the server must locate information, reprocess it and request initialization of resources supplied by other applications running on dedicated computers under the server’s control. Because of workload sharing the servers must be beefy, expensive computers with lots of disk capacity, fault tolerant processors and ample memory.

When you use your internet connection to become part of the WWW your computer becomes a web client. Your web browser software is the software that makes your computer work as a web client. Computers that are connected to the internet and that contain files that their owners have made publicly available through their internet connections are called web servers. Client server architecture may be used on LANs, WANs and on the web. The main characteristic of client/server architecture is the division of workload between the server and client. The client computer request services including printing, information retrieval and database access. The server is responsible for processing the client’s requests. Besides receiving and interpreting requests from the client, the server must locate information, reprocess it and request initialization of resources supplied by other applications running on dedicated computers under the server’s control. Because of workload sharing the servers must be beefy, expensive computers with lots of disk capacity, fault tolerant processors and ample memory.