A waiter HTTP or demon HTTP or httpd ( HTTP demon ) or (less precisely) Web server , is a Logiciel serving as the requests respecting the Communication protocol Client-serveur Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which was developed for the World Wide Web.

Waiter HTTP and Web server

A Ordinateur on which a waiter HTTP functions is called Web server. The term “Web server” can also indicate waiter HTTP (the Logiciel) itself. The two terms are used for the software because protocol HTTP was developed for the Web and the Web pages are in practice always been useful with this protocol. Other resources of the Web like the file S to be downloaded or the audio stream or video on the other hand are frequently been useful with other protocols.

Products

The most used waiters HTTP are:

• Apache HTTP Server of the Apache Software Foundation, successor of NCSA httpd;
• Internet Information Services (IIS) of Microsoft;
• Sun Java System Web server of Sun Microsystems (in the past iPlanet of Netscape Communications Corporation, then Sun ONE of Sun Microsystems);
• the Web server Zeus of Zeus Technology;

Waiter HTTP more used is Apache HTTP Server which serves approximately 60% of the Web sites In 2007 according to Netcraft.

Historically, other important waiters HTTP were CERN httpd, developed by the inventors of the Web, given up the July 15th 1996 and NCSA httpd, developed with NCSA at the same time as NCSA Mosaic, given up mid- 1994, like WebObjects.

There exist also waiters HTTP which are waiters of applications able to make waiter HTTP, like Roxen or Caudium.

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