Sarvesh, a student of Class X, is not able to understand the difference between web client and web server. Help him in understanding the same by explaining their role and giving suitable example of each.

Question

Sarvesh, a student of Class X, is not able to understand the difference between web clients and web servers. Help him in understanding the same by explaining their role and giving a suitable examples of each.

Topic	Internet Basics (Computer Applications)
Type	Short Answer Type Questions
Class	10

Answer 1

Differences between web clients and web servers are as follows:

Web Client	Web Server
It is an application that communicates with a web server, using HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP).	It is a piece of software designed to serve web pages/websites/web services.
e.g. web browser.	e.g. IIS, Apache and many more.