or all the documents that are linked to it gateway a standard interface that specifies how a web server launches and interacts with external programs such as a database search engine in response to requests from clients internet a collection of interconnected public and private computer networks that are linked together with routers by a set of standards protocols to form a global distributed network server a software program or a computer that responds to requests from a web browser by returning u201c serving u201d web documents web browser a software program that allows users to request and read hypertext documents the browser gives some means of viewing the contents of web documents and of navigating from one document to another web document or page a collection of data available on the world wide web and identified by a url in the simplest most common case a web page is a file written in html and stored on a web server it is possible for the server to generate pages dynamically in response to a request from the user a web page can be in any format that the browser or a helper application can display the format is transmitted as part of the headers of the response as a mime type e g u201c text html u201d u201c image gif u201d an html web page will typically refer to other web pages and internet resources by including hypertext links web site a database or other collection of inter linked hypertext documents u201c web documents u201d or u201c web pages u201d and associated data entities which is accessible via a computer network and which.