Web Server Fundamentals

What is a Web server?

• A program that generates and transmits responses to client requests for Web resources.

• A type of hardware used to store web pages.

• A software that only retrieves files from the internet.

What are the steps in handling a client request?

• Read and parse the HTTP request message, Translate the URL to a file name, Determine whether the request is authorized, Generate and transmit the response.

• Only read the request message.

• Translate the URL to a file name and generate a response.

What is the difference between a Web site and a Web server?

• A Web site consists of a collection of Web pages associated with a particular hostname, while a Web server is a program to satisfy client requests for Web resources.

• A Web site is a program, while a Web server is a collection of pages.

• There is no difference; they are the same.

What is authentication in the context of a Web server?

• Identifying the user who originated the request.

• Determining which users have access to a resource.

• A method to speed up server responses.

What does authorization determine?

• Which users have access to a particular resource.

• How fast a server can respond.

• The type of resources available on the server.

What is a server-side include?

• An instruction to customize a static resource based on directives in an HTML-like file.

• A method to include images in a web page.

• A type of server that only serves static files.

What is the main role of a Web server?

• To associate the requested URL with the appropriate script and pass data to/from the script.

• To store all web pages.

• To manage user authentication.

What is the purpose of cookies in web development?

• To store user identifiers and history information.

• To speed up the loading of web pages.

• To manage server resources.

What is server-side caching?

• Caching data from the disk in main memory at the server.

• Storing all user data on the server.

• A method to increase server security.

What is an event-driven server architecture?

• A server that has a single process that alternates between servicing different requests.

• A server that allocates each request to a separate process.

• A server that does not handle multiple requests.