Web server is a computer
program that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests
from clients, which are known as Web
browsers, and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data
contents, which usually are Web pages such as HTML documents
and linked objects (images, etc.). IIS is a web server which sits on the top of
the ASP.NET engine which processes the HTML pages, images, etc. Configuring IIS
with web application is the key for the performance and security for the ASP.NET
pages. In this article we tried to explore various components of IIS. We also saw
different Authentication standards of IIS.