If you need a quick web server running and you don't want to mess with setting up apache or something similar, then Python can help. Python comes with a simple builtin HTTP server. With the help of ...

This mini web server is slightly smaller than a business card. There are a lot of tiny one-board servers out there, but this is probably the smallest you can etch and solder at home. Unlike many ...

As noted in Part 1 in this series, embedded Web Applications use the same HTTP communications mechanism as your bank account or the latest game on your smartphone. And why not? The HTTP protocol is ...

Editor's Note: This web services development tutorial was published in 2001, and remains a very popular article on TheServerSide. This article still provides great value, but significant changes have ...

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 ...

Public service announcement for a really simple web server for static content. I run a small personal web server on my NAS. I share some pictures, have a few pages of text, nothing too fancy. This ...

This article will only explore setting up the server for use on local networks, not through the internet. At this point in the series, you’ve set up Arch Linux ARM on your Raspberry Pi and you are ...

What's the difference between Tomcat and Apache? It's a question developers hear frequently. But, when worded that way, it contains some misleading assumptions. Normally, when people ask this question ...

Web services are all the rage in development circles, but full-featured application servers like JBoss are terrible overkill for small system solutions. In many situations, simple RESTful interfaces ...