HTTP Server

Since the advent of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s, HTTP servers are becoming more and more important. They provide secure and efficient services, and without them the Internet would not exist. Their capabilities and features are also increasing starting with CGI, Server Side Include ( SSI ), Secure Socket Layer ( SSL ), Server Side Scripting ( ASP, JSP, JSF, PHP, ... ), web container, EJB container...

Whenever you login to a site in Internet, one of the server or servers listed on the left are involved getting the content you asked for. It does its magic in the backround and you can roam around the world in seconds.

There are a huge number of web servers around the world and on the left are some popular ones, note that the number is growing larger by the day. Some of those web servers are open source and free while others are commercially available.