Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell

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Web Services

Mac OS X comes with Apache, an open source web server responsible for more than half of all the Internet’s web sites.^[*] At its most basic level, Apache runs as a daemon named httpd that supports the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP); it listens to web surfers’ requests (on port 80, by default) and replies with response codes and web pages.

^[*]Netcraft tracks the changing popularity levels of Apache and other web servers on its web site at http://www.netcraft.com/survey/.

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