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Aquarius_Girl
Aquarius_Girl

Reputation: 22936

Do we need to install a webserver for a webservice to work, always?

I will be having a software which will give me information about the moving vehicles on the server side and I need to pass this information to the client computer on demand.

There will be a website which will act like a server and another website will act like a client. The client website will ask for a data from the server website.

From here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2849683/462608

As the protocol may not be HTTP, you may provide WebServices over mail or other protocols, and you do not need a web server for that.

I request an explanation on the above quote. In my case will I be needing a webserver?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1723

Answers (1)

Stan
Stan

Reputation: 8768

There is a bunch of webservice protocols, some of them may use and some may not use http as transport layer. When http is used - you need a webserver on server-side of your service and a webbrowser as a client. If the transport is other than http, you need server of other type, and other client, for example, mail server and mail client in case of running service over smtp.

Upvotes: 4

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