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Chapter 11 WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

Q1. What is a Web Browser ?
ans.
A Web Browser is a WWW Client that is used to navigate world wide web or to browse/surf the internet.
It also acts as a HTML and Javascript Interpreter.
Q2. What is a web Server ?
Ans.
A web server is a WWW server that stores web documents and responds to the requests made by the
web browsers.
Q3. What are the major function of a web server
Ans.
A web server provides four major functions,
1. serving webpages
2. running gateway programs and returning output
3. controlling access to the server
4. monitoring and logging server statictics
Q4. Name few of the popular web servers
Ans.
1. Apache web server
2. IIS internet Information server (microsoft's free web server)
3. Netscape enterprise web server
4. Pws personal web server etc
Q5. Name few of the popular web browsers
Ans.
1. MSIE (microsoft internet explorer)
2. google chrome
3. NNAV (Netscape Navigaor)
4. Mozilla Firefox
5. Apple safari etc
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Q6. What is a website

Ans.
A location on a web server is called a website. it contains text, graphics, audio , video ,images and other
multimedia elements in the form of a web page.
Q7. What is a URL/URI
Ans.
Each website has a unique address called url (uniform resource locator) or uri (uniform resource
identifier). for example www.microsoft.com or www.yahoo.com etc.
A complete url contains the following elements
1. protocol - normally http
2. host - normally www
3. domain name -choose by the web owner
4. domain type - depends on the contents and objective of the website
5. path - directory structure
6. filename - filename to be loaded.
eg. http://www.microsoft.com/india/news/top10.html
here
http is the protocol
www is the host
microsoft is the domain name
.com is the domain type
news/india is the path name
top10.html is the filename.
Q8. What are the types of webpage.
Ans.
There are three types of webpages.
1. static webpage (only HTML) - contents do not changes
2. dynamic webpage (HTML + scripting Language) contents may chane on each open
3. active webpage (HTML + scripting Language +programming language) active changes
Q9. What are the types of scripting found on the website.
Ans.
There are two types os scripting
1. client side scripting (the script or program runs on client machine)
2. server side scripting (the script or program runs on server machine)
Q10. Write the full form of the following
1. http : hypertext transfer protocol
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2. ftp : file transfer protocol
3. smtp : simple mail transfer protocol
4. www - world wide web
5. html - hyper text markup languae
6. cgi - common gateway interface
7. php - hypertext preprocessor
8. asp - active server pages
9. jsp - java server pages
10. ssi - server side includes
11. url - uniform resource locator
Q11. What is a protocol ?
Ans.
Protocols are the rules / programs created to transfer data from one computer to another.
Q12. What is client server computing ?
Ans.
Client/ server describes the relationship between two comptuer programs in which the client makes the
service request and the server fullfills the request.

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