A Web server exclusively handles HTTP requests, whereas an application server serves business logic to application programs through any number of protocols. Let’s examine each in more detail. A Web ...

Web server software that is built into hardware. Almost all network devices have embedded Web servers (HTTP servers), which provide a control panel for configuring the device. The primary advantage is ...

HTML files make the 'net go round -- while there are a variety of different file types for designing and viewing a website, HTML files are the most prevalent. Once you've created your HTML file, ...

Rendering is crucial to your website’s operations, enabling Google to retrieve your webpages, decipher the code, and understand its content and structure. The rendering process then converts this code ...

Jakarta Server Pages (formerly JavaServer Pages) is a Java standard technology that developers use to write dynamic, data-driven web pages for Java web applications. JSP is built on top of the Java ...

You see them all over the Web: little snippets of information that are buried in a page, and change each time you visit. Or even more mysterious, bits of information about you: your machine name and ...

Continuing the theme from my previous column on the relative security of Internet Information Services (IIS) vs. Apache, I’ve come across more studies to support my initial conclusion. If you remember ...