What is the role of the webserver?

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What is the role of the webserver?..

Answer / a.srinivas rao

A web server is the combination of HTTP engine,servlet
container and jsp container.the combination of servlet and
jsp containers is called web container which takes care of
every thing of servlet.a web server receives user request
in form of URL and maps it to appropriate servlet to
process the request

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What is the role of the webserver?..

Answer / shakir

Using the internet,listening the HTTP request and providing
the HTTP response.
Transaction with HTTP request and respose.
That gives only a html output ,it will not proccess
business logic in the server side.They can provide HTTP
server.They are static.

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What is the role of the webserver?..

Answer / ramakrishna

A webserver is a server side application which is used to
deploy webapplication in it,it will listen to Http request
coming to this web application and provide response to them
either in static or non-static page

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What is the role of the webserver?..

Answer / madhu .yadavalli

the web server is execution infrastructure that handles
HTTP requests and responses

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