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HTTP server

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source

An application program that accepts connections in order to service HTTP requests by sending back HTTP responses.
Any given program may be capable of being both an HTTP client and an HTTP server; our use of these terms refers only to the role being performed by the program for a particular connection, rather than to the program's capabilities in general. Likewise, any HTTP server may act as an origin server, HTTP proxy, HTTP gateway, or tunnel, switching behavior based on the nature of each request.
This term was developed from the definition of server in Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1.
origin server

From Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0 (2004-01-15) | Glossary for this source

Software that can respond to requests by delivering appropriate content or error messages. The origin server may receive requests via either WSP or HTTP. Application programs executing on the origin server deliver content that is tailored in accordance with the CC/PP that can be found within the provided Profile. For the purpose of this specification, "origin server" refers to content generation capabilities, which may physically exist in a stand-alone Web server or may be co-located with a proxy or gateway.
origin server

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source

The server on which a given resource resides or is to be created.
This term was taken verbatim from Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1.
origin server

From Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 (1999-06-15) | Glossary for this source

The server on which a given resource resides or is to be created.
server

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

The role adopted by an application when it is supplying resources or resource manifestations.
server

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

A program that provides a service (typically information) to another program, called the client. A Web server holds Web pages and allows client programs to read and write them.
server

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source

The role adopted by an application when it is supplying resources or resource manifestations.
This term was taken verbatim from Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet.
server

From Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 (1999-06-15) | Glossary for this source

An application program that accepts connections in order to service requests by sending back responses. Any given program may be capable of being both a client and a server; our use of these terms refers only to the role being performed by the program for a particular connection, rather than to the program's capabilities in general. Likewise, any server may act as an origin server, proxy, gateway, or tunnel, switching behavior based on the nature of each request.
server

From Hypertext Terms (1995-04-15) | Glossary for this source

A program which provides a service to another, known as the client . In a hypertext system, a server will provide hypertext information to a browser . See also: daemon .
server session

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

A collection of user clicks to a single Web server during a user session. Also called a visit.

WAIS (Wide area information servers)

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

A distributed information system designed by Brewster Kahle while at Thinking Machines. WAIS was like a Web of search engines, but without hypertext.
web server

From Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet (1999-05-24) | Glossary for this source

A server that provides access to Web resources and which supplies Web resource manifestations to the requestor.

The Glossary System has been built by Pierre Candela during an internship in W3C; it's now maintained by Dominique Hazael-Massieux

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