Head First HTML with CSS

What does the Web server do?
Web servers have a full time job on the Internet, tirelessly waiting for requests from Web
browsers. What kinds of requests? Requests for Web pages, images, sounds, or maybe even a
movie. When a server gets a request for any of these resources, the server finds the resource,
and then sends it back to the browser.
The server’s just a computer
connected to the Internet waiting
for requests from browsers.
Each server
stores HTML
files, pictures,
sounds and other
file types.
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Kick’n Tunes
BT - Satellite:
nice downbeat tune.
...
My Playlist
Kick’n Tunes
BT - Satellite:
nice downbeat tune.
...
Web Server
What does the Web browser do?
“I need the HTML f
“Found it, here ya go”
le ‘lounge.html’”
...and if the server can
locate the resource, it
sends it to the browser.
You already know how a browser works: you’re surfing around the Web and you click on a link
to visit a page. That click causes your browser to request an HTML page from a Web server,
retrieve it, and display the page in your browser window.
Web Server
The server “serves up”
Web pages and sends
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