Web Communication

Web Communication:

Web pages are stored on a Web server to make them available on the Internet so that users can view them. A Web server is a computer with high processing speed connected to the Internet and is used to host Web pages. Web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator are used to interpret and display the Web pages using a protocol (set of rules). The most popular protocol used to view Web pages is Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is a protocol that specifies how a Web page will be retrieved from the Web Server.

The steps to view a Web page in a browser are as follows:

1.  The user specifies the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the                Web page in a browser.

2.  The client browser sends the URL request to the appropriate             Web server.

3.   The Web server processes the request and sends the Web page        as a response to the browser.