Understanding web services

A web service is usually a network service but in web technology. Moreover, a web service represents communication between the browser and the web server based on the request/response paradigm. Commonly, it takes place over the internet using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) communication protocol. Therefore, to better understand web services, you must familiarize yourself with IIS, WWW, and FTP.

In the next section, you’ll learn what IIS is.

IIS

IIS is Microsoft’s web server, which provides reliable, manageable, and scalable web applications. IIS supports communication protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP, and NNTP for communication between the browser and the web server. In addition, for dynamic content on the server side, Microsoft has developed a scripting technology called Active Server Pages (ASP).

In IIS version 10, Microsoft has significantly increased security by providing support for scripts that take a...