Hacking web servers
Web Server
Web Server is a computing system that runs on server OS to process the HTTP/HTTPS requests and serve the web pages on the world wide web. The pages delivered are HTML documents, which may include images and scripts in addition to the text content. Clients use a web browser to interact with the web server.
Any computer can be turned into a Web server by installing server software and connecting the machine to the Internet. There are many Web server software applications like Xampp, Apache, Nginx, IIS web server, etc.
How Web Servers Work?
When a user requests a web page hosted on the internet, the web server responds with that requested page. The below image represents this process.
Obtaining the IP Address from domain name: Web browser first obtains the domain name and resolves it to IP address. It can obtain the IP address in 2 ways:
- By searching cache.
- By requesting one or more DNS Servers.
After knowing the IP Address, the browser now demands a full URL from the web server. The web server responds, by sending the requested page to the browser, and if, the web page does not exist, then it will display an appropriate error message. The browser renders the response received from the server to display…
