A Web server exclusively handles HTTP requests, whereas an application server serves business logic to application programs through any number of protocols. Let’s examine each in more detail. A Web ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Web clients should never hit an application server directly. Instead, all web-based requests ...

With so many security efforts concentrated on networks themselves, it seems as though Web applications have been all but forgotten. Perhaps it’s because applications used to be stand-alone programs ...