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Web Server? #2

Open natalieagus opened 3 years ago

natalieagus commented 3 years ago

Hi TA Melmel, can you explain what is a web server for? In laymen terms please thank you 😜

caramelmelmel commented 3 years ago

hi @natalieagus The webserver is to respond to the client's request so that the server made over the worldwide web.

A way to think about it is when you use a basic github issue template like this, you can see the github html and css files rendered here most of the time.

Even better, layman example. To send a message to an MIT website, you make a request to MIT. MIT is like a web server. You request MIT to allow you to view the courses on your side so you are the client. Now, what MIT will do now is to serve the data over in the html to render on your side.

Hope that clarifies :)