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IIS overview

IIS overview - ASP.NET Tutorial

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IIS overview

- [Instructor] Before we talk about the structure of our project and what exactly got created, let's first talk about how our application is going to be run. So in order to run our application we need something called IIS, internet information server. IIS is an application that runs on a Windows platform and it will take the requests from the client. So this is how it looks. First the client will send a request to a server. The request itself, it's called an HTTP request. HTTP stands for hyper text transfer protocol. And there can be two types of requests, get or post. Get is normally sent when you want to get some data from the server and post is used when you want to send some data to the server and then you want the server to process it and then send you back some responses. Now when the server sees that request, it look at it and if it sees that request being an ASP.NET request it will send it to the .NET framework. The .NET framework will take that request and it will see exactly…

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