Server side scripting

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Server Side Scripting refers to a technology for web servers in which user requests are fulfilled by executing a computer program on the server to create a dynamic website . In contrast to client side scripting , the program runs independently of the client only on the server. The server returns the result of the script to the user as an HTTP or FTP response.

History and Development

In the early days of the Web server side scripting is often via the Common Gateway Interface implemented using a combination of Perl -script, shell scripts and binary programs, which are often in C have been written. These scripts and programs were executed by the operating system and only returned their output to the web server. Today the script languages ​​can often be changed using additional modules such as B. mod php or mod perl can be executed directly in the web server. There are web servers such as B. Apache Tomcat , which are specialized in the execution of server-side programs and were even specially developed for this purpose.

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