graph). See also Server (computing) Application server Comparison of web server software HTTP server (core part of a web server program that serves HTTP requests) HTTP compression Web application Open source web application List of AMP packages Variant object Virtual hosting Web hosting service Web container Web proxy Web service Standard Web Server Gateway Interfaces used for dynamic contents: CGI Common Gateway Interface SCGI Simple Common Gateway Interface FastCGI Fast Common Gateway Interface A few other Web Server Interfaces (server or programming language specific) used for dynamic contents: SSI Server Side Includes, rarely used, static HTML documents containing SSI directives are interpreted by server software to include small dynamic data on the fly when pages are served, e.g. date and time, other static file contents, etc. SAPI Server Application Programming Interface: ISAPI Internet Server Application Programming Interface NSAPI Netscape Server Application Programming Interface PSGI Perl Web Server Gateway Interface WSGI Python Web Server Gateway Interface Rack Rack Web Server Gateway Interface JSGI JavaScript Web Server Gateway Interface Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages Active Server Pages, ASP.NET References External links Mozilla: what is a web server? Netcraft: news about web server survey Servers (computing) Web server software Website management English inventions