At its core, a Web server sends static content to a Web browser by loading a file from a disk and sending it across the network to a user's Web browser. The browser and server communicate with each other using HTTP to mediate the exchange.
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Yahoo! has donated its Traffic Server software to the Apache Software Foundation as open source. Traffic Server is a high performance HTTP/1.1 caching proxy server Yahoo has used internally since acquiring its original developers, Inktomi, in 2002.
It's a shiny new decade for the organization behind the popular open source Web server. In 10 years the non-profit foundation has grown from its initial project, HTTP Web Server, to more than 60 projects.
The Apache Software Foundation Monday released a new update to its Apache HTTP server.
A Security Advisory issued late Tuesday from Redmond warns users of a critical zero-day flaw in the FTP capability of older versions IIS Web server software.
A hacker Monday posted code that makes it possible to take over a system running Microsoft IIS server.
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