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3. What is a web server? How is it different from a web browser? [2023]
OR
What do you understand by the term cookies? Give any two benefits of cookies.
Ans. A web server is used to store and deliver the contents of a website to clients such as a browser that requests it.
Web Server Web Browser
A web server can be software or hardware. A web browser is only software.
A web server stores the data of the website. A web browser can redirect the webpage stores on a web server.
OR
A cookie is a text file, containing a string of information, which is transferred by the website to the browser when we
browse it.
Two benefits of cookies are:
It helps in customizing the information that will be displayed.
It remembers the information filled in the various forms online.
Answers
Multiple Choice Questions
1. (b) 2. (b) 3. (a) 4. (c)
True or False
1. (F) 2. (T) 3. (T) 4. (T)
Fill in the blanks
1. VoIP 2. WWW 3. Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
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