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What is the difference between webserver and application server

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Answered by msasomrat
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Web Server is designed to serve HTTP Content. App Server can also serve HTTP Content but is not limited to just HTTP. It can be provided other protocol support such as RMI/RPC

Web Server is mostly designed to serve static content, though most Web Servers have plugins to support scripting languages like Perl, PHP, ASP, JSP etc. through which these servers can generate dynamic HTTP content.

Most of the application servers have Web Server as integral part of them, that means App Server can do whatever Web Server is capable of. Additionally App Server have components and features to support Application level services such as Connection Pooling, Object Pooling, Transaction Support, Messaging services etc.

As web servers are well suited for static content and app servers for dynamic content, most of the production environments have web server acting as reverse proxy to app server. That means while servicing a page request, static contents (such as images/Static HTML) are served by web server that interprets the request. Using some kind of filtering technique (mostly extension of requested resource) web server identifies dynamic content request and transparently forwards to app server.

Answered by ShresthaTheMetalGuy
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What Is a Web Server?

A web server is usually a kind of software program that is designed to handle all of your web requests. The server is created to accept only the static contents such as HTML pages, video files, images, and much more in the form of incoming requests. After getting requested, the web server responds to the requests over the HTTP protocol with other optional data contents.

The web server is serving all the contents of the World Wide Web and make them accessible to its end users. This refers to a kind of system that consists of both software and hardware web contents as per the end-users.

In simple terms, the webserver is a computer that delivers web pages when they are requested for accessing the content by the end-users. Apache fulfills this approach in current days as it is the most popularly and widely used open-source web server developed and fully maintained by the Apache Software Foundation.

What Is an Application Server?

The application server is frequently mistaken for the webserver and that as though they offer same administrations however in all actuality, it utilizes different techniques to process the majority of the applications which are started by the webserver.

This permits to have and convey top of the line business applications that are comprising of a 3-level application Graphical User Interface(GUI) which incorporates exchange server, a database, and an application server.

The primary purpose of the application server is to serve the right business logic to the mobile app programs using variant protocols that include HTTP. Be sure that it is not restricted to do the same. Being a software framework that facilitates both web-based and enterprise-based applications, it does not only serve the static content but also suited for serving the dynamic content and application transfer from one device to another.

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