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Difference Between Web Browser and Web

Server
August 30, 2017 Leave a Comment

The web browser is an application program that displays a www document. It


usually uses other internet services to access the document.
Web server is a program or a computer that can provide services to other
programs called clients.

The main difference between a Web browser and a Web server is that Web
browser requests for the document and services, and act as an interface
between a client and a server which displays the web content. On the other
hand, Web server accepts, approve, and response to the request made by a web
browser for a web document.

When a user asks a browser to get a web page, the browser parcels up this
instruction with the help of protocol called the Transmission Control Protocol
(or TCP). TCP is a transport (layer) protocol, which provides a reliable
transmission format for the instruction. Its job is to confirm the correct sequence
of the entire message so that it could be bundled up for transmission (and also
that it is correctly unpacked and put back together after it arrives at its
destination).

But, before parcels of data are sent out over the network uniquely, they need to
be addressed. Thus a second protocol called Hypertext Transfer
Protocol( orHTTP) puts a unique address label on it. HTTP is the protocol
employed the World Wide Web in the transfer of information from one computer
to another – when you see URL prefixed with http:// you can immediately know
that the internet protocol being used in HTTP.

The message that goes from the web browser to the web server is known as
HTTP request. When the web server receives this request, it searches its stores
to find the appropriate page. If the web server is able to locate the page, it
parcels up the HTML contained within (using TCP or some other transport layer
protocol), addresses these parcels to the browser (using HTTP), and transmit
them back across the network.
If the web server is unable to find the requested page, it sends a page
containing an error message (i.e., Error 404 – page not found)- and it parcels up
the dispatches that page to the browser. This message received from the web
server by the browser is called the HTTP response.

Content: Web Browser Vs Web Server


1. Comparison Chart
2. Definition
3. Key Differences
4. Conclusion

Comparison Chart
BASIS FOR
WEB BROWSER WEB SERVER
COMPARISON

Software which acts as an Software and a system which

interface between server and maintain the web applications,


Basic
client, and displays web generate response and accept

documents to the client. clients data.

Send HTTP request and get Get HTTP requests and send
Primary role
HTTP response. HTTP responses.

Processing There doesn't exist any Process based, Thread based


BASIS FOR
WEB BROWSER WEB SERVER
COMPARISON

Models processing model. and Hybrid.

Definition of Web Browser


A Web browser can be considered as a utility which client uses to access web
services and documents from the server. There are various types of browsers
are in use, for example, the default browser for windows platform is internet
explorer, similarly for apple device default browser is Safari. Although, there are
other browsers also like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, opera and UC.

Browser Architecture :
There are numerous vendors offer several kinds of browsers commercially, the
basic work of which is to display a web document. All the browsers you use
employs almost the same architecture.

Each browser is divided into three parts, i.e., a controller, client program, and
interpreters.

 Controller gets the input by the way of a keyboard or a mouse and


accesses the document by using client program.
 While the document has been accessing controller uses interpreters,
which displays the document on the screen.
 At last the clientprogram which could be any of the methods (or
protocols) like HTTP, FTP, or TELNET.
 Depending on the type of document, an interpreter can be HTML or Java.
 The grouping of documents in the WWW is based on the instant when the
content is created and classified into three categories: Static, dynamic, and
active.

Definition of Web Server


WebServer is a piece of software running on a computer whose primary job is
to distribute web pages to users whenever they demand it and provides an area
in which to store and organise the pages of the website.
The machine that executes the web server software can be a remote machine
placed at the other side of your network or even on the other end of the globe,
or it be your very own personal computer at home. We also introduced the idea
that the user’s browser was the client in this relationship.

Web Servers Processing Model


 Processbased servers have multiple single threaded processes.
 Threadbased servers have a single multithreaded process.
 Hybrid servers use multiple multithreaded processes.

Key Differences Between Web Browser and Web Server


1. Web browser accesses information provided by Web servers through the
help of protocols.
2. The web browser sends HTTP request and gets the HTTP response. In
contrast, a Web server gets HTTP requests, and it generates responses.
3. The web server has three processing models – process based, thread
based and Hybrid. As against, a web browser doesn’t have any processing
models.

Conclusion:
A web browser is an application software which acts as an interface between
server and client and allows us to view and explore documents on the internet.
While web server is a computer which is used for storing and hosting the web
content. Furthermore, it handles HTTP requests generated by client with the
help of a browser and responds back to the client.

Related Differences:
1. Difference between Static and Dynamic Web Pages
2. Difference between Server-side Scripting and Client-side Scripting
3. Difference between Web page and Website
4. Difference Between HTTP and HTTPS
5. Difference Between Web server and Application server

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