Web Applications

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The web is used as a technical platform to allow the manipulation of applications hosted on web servers. In such applications, programs and data reside on a web server - unlike conventional applications which reside on the user's computer. For developers, the provision of an application hosted on a web server is much less costly than burning a CD and sending it to mass distribution. Subsequent improvements are also facilitated.
CGI is a technique for associating a program with a web page. Using this technique, the HTTP server can use the program to obtain data from, for example, databases, and then send it as a web page.
Between 1995 and 2005 Java Servlet succeeded CGI, then Active Server Pages, mod_php (PHP language) and mod_perl for perl language, used by many cgi and fastCGI scripts (1995), were launched as competing technologies.
PHP quickly became the most used language on the server side.

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