1.1 Clients and Servers

 

	Webmaster in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition By Robert  Eckstein, Stephen  Spainhour
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	Chapter 1.   The Web in a Nutshell

1.1 Clients and Servers

The tool most people use on the Web is a browser , such as Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla, or Lynx. Web browsers work by connecting over the Internet to remote machines, requesting specific documents, and then formatting the documents they receive for viewing on the local machine.

The language, or protocol , used for web transactions is Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP. The remote machines containing the documents run HTTP servers that wait for requests from browsers and then return the specified document. The browsers themselves are technically HTTP clients .