Web server
nounid
4654·updated May 9, 2026verified
Using the client-server model and the World Wide Web's HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Web Server is a software program that serves web pages to users.
MWE
Attested in
NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems
03.13.01.c ¶ 1
Classifications
Entity Type
System92%rule-basedr:entity.system.compute.v1
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- plural
- Web servers
- possessive
- Web server's
- pluralpossessive
- Web servers'
Framework definitions
- §1
- A software process that runs on a host computer connected to the Internet to respond to HTTP requests for documents from client web browsers.
- §1
- Using the client-server model and the World Wide Web's HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Web Server is a software program that serves web pages to users.
- §1 · attested_usage_pack_match
- No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- Using the client-server model and the World Wide Web's HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Web Server is a software program that serves web pages to users.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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