9.1. ASP.NET Applications and the Web Server
ASP.NET applications always work in conjunction with a web server—a specialized piece of software that accepts requests over HTTP (Hypertext Transport Protocol) and serves content. When you're running your web application in Visual Studio, you use the test web server that's built in. When you deploy your website to a broader audience, you need a real web server, such as IIS.
Web servers run special software to support mail exchange, FTP and HTTP access, and everything else clients need in order to access web content. Before you can go any further, you need to understand a little more about how web servers work.
9.1.1. How Web Servers Work
The easiest job a web server has is to provide ordinary HTML ...
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