3D Game Programming

Web Servers Must Be Publicly Available on the Internet

Remember that the machine holding a website must be publicly

available on the Internet. The machines that you use at home are

almost never publicly available. Even if someone else on the Internet

knows your machine’s network address, they would still not be

able to reach it because it’s not publicly available.

Unfortunately, this means you usually need to pay a little money

to get your cool web games available on the Internet. You need to

pay a web hosting company to host your games.

When the browser’s request reaches the web server, the server checks to see

if it has the requested item. Web servers can have all sorts of information

stored on them:

Usually the first request that a browser sends to a server is for an HTML web

page:

If the server has the web page the user is looking for, then it sends it back to

the browser:

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