server-side
<World-Wide Web> Processing or content generation that is done on the web
server or other server, as opposed to on the client computer where the web
browser is running.
An example is server-side include where one file is inserted in another before
it is served, rather than, say, having the browser request the files separately
and combine them using an iframe. A very common kind of server-side processing
is the inclusion of data from a database in a web page.
There are many software environments and technologies designed for server-side
processing, e.g. CGI, ISAPI, WebObjects and ASP.
The greatest advantage of server-side processing is that it is independent of
the many different client software environments that exist on the Internet,
chiefly different web browsers and operating systems. The disadvantage is that
the user must wait for a response from the server which is a much slower form of
interaction than is possible with client-side processing using, e.g.,
JavaScript.
(2003-12-29)
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