Client-Server Softwares and Protocols
- Client-Server structure -- a user's computer uses
a software to interact with the other computers through
their software, this is how most Internet services
operate.
- Client -- the software that runs on the user's
computer. It sends requests to the remote computer
systems. Examples of client softwares are:
- Email programs -- Eudora, Pine, etc.
- Newsreaders -- WinVN, Netscape News, Free
Agent, etc.
- Telnet programs -- NCSA Telnet, Trumpet Telnet,
etc.
- Gopher browsers -- BC Gopher, WS Gopher,
etc.
- Web browsers -- Mosaic, Netscape Navigator,
Internet Explorer, etc.
- Server -- the software on the remote computer
system that communicates and responses to the client
software's requests. It is also the name of the
computers (also called hosts or nodes) that store
and send files to the users' computers. Examples
of server softwares are:
- Microsoft Internet Information Server
- WebForce
- Protocol for connecting and using a remote computer
system
- Protocols for transferring files between the servers
and the clients
- FTP
- Gopher
- World Wide Web
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Bibliography :
Irvine, Martin. 1997. Web Works: Norton pocket guide. New York:
W.W. Norton & Company.
Ackermann, Ernest. 1996. Learning to use the World Wide Web.
Wilsonville, Oregon: Franklin, Beedle & Associates, Incorporated.
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