By combining these into one product you install manage and use these as a suite of applications cutting the time it takes to stay on top of the services supporting your Intranet installation. The next three sections show how these services work at a basic level. Each service has a unique place in the on-line world and each quickly becomes a vital component of your system. The World Wide Web server component of IIS is Microsoft's answer to one of the core technologies fueling the fire on the Internet today. Web sites are coming on-line at rates that are nothing less than astounding.
Web servers provide content to Web browsers as documents.
These documents contain special formatting called Hyper Text Markup Language or HTML . This HTML indicates to the browser exactly how a document should be displayed to the user. Displaying a Web page requires a series of conversations between the Web browser and several components. First there's an issue of allowing the user to enter the address of the document to be displayed. After this the address provided by the user must be looked up.