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Spoon feeding: reduces resource usage caused by slow clients on the web servers by caching the content the web server sent and slowly "spoon feeding" it to the client. This especially benefits dynamically generated pages. Security: the proxy server is an additional layer of defense and can protect against some OS and web-server-specific attacks.
A computer network diagram of clients communicating with a server via the Internet. The client–server model is a distributed application structure that partitions tasks or workloads between the providers of a resource or service, called servers, and service requesters, called clients. [1]
A client is a computer or a program that, as part of its operation, relies on sending a request to another program or a computer hardware or software that accesses a service made available by a server (which may or may not be located on another computer). [3] For example, web browsers are clients that connect to web servers and retrieve web ...
An application server is a server that hosts applications [1] or software that delivers a business application through a communication protocol. [2] For a typical web application, the application server sits behind the web servers. An application server framework is a service layer model.
A possible interaction between a web browser and a web server holding a web page in which the server sends a cookie to the browser and the browser sends it back when requesting another page. Cookies are arbitrary pieces of data, usually chosen and first sent by the web server, and stored on the client computer by the web browser.
A server log is a log file (or several files) automatically created and maintained by a server consisting of a list of activities it performed. A typical example is a web server log which maintains a history of page requests. The W3C maintains a standard format (the Common Log Format) for web server log files, but other proprietary formats ...
A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way.Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information (a portlet); often, the user can configure which ones to display.
In computer security, a DMZ or demilitarized zone (sometimes referred to as a perimeter network or screened subnet) is a physical or logical subnetwork that contains and exposes an organization's external-facing services to an untrusted, usually larger, network such as the Internet.