A Web server serves pages for viewing in web browser, application server provides exposes business logic for client applications through various protocols .Web server exclusively handles http requests.
- A Web Server (otherwise known as an HTTP Server)
An Application Server is any server that supplies additional functionality related to enterprise computing -- for instance, load balancing, database access classes, transaction processing, messaging, and so on.
A Web Server understands and supports only HTTP protocol whereas an Application Server supports HTTP, TCP/IP and many more protocols. Also many more features such as Caches, Clusters, and Load Balancing are there in Application Servers which are not available in Web Servers. We can also Configure Application Servers to work as Web Server.
In short, Application Server is a super set of which Web Server is a sub set.
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