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  • The most commonly-used web server, Apache, with over 60% of market share as of March 2003, is available from the Apache Software Foundation.
This kind of seems like advocacy/POV, especially since this is about all web servers, and not Apache in particular. Should this be removed? --User:Khym_Chanur 07:06, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)
    • I agree that this is on the hairy edge of advocacy, but I don't think it was intended by the writer. It's actually useful information. I came here trying to find out precisely this: what to expect in the way of web server software on various systems.
I think we can swing this back towards the middle of NPOV by adding a little table giving statistics about what percentage of web servers use what software. Something like Apache, 61%; BonzoWeb, 14%; HTTeePee, 11%, and so on (sorry, I made up those names). It should also be broken down by operating system type. That would be a great table; it would show the state of play in a neutral and informative way.
Trouble is, of course, that I don't know how one would go about collecting those statistics. If anybody adds such a table, please leave a hint about where the stats come from, so people can fact-check your ass.
Great article — I'm about to add some stuff that everybody knows, but we should say in case they don't.
ACW 16:44, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Question from 61.246.245.2

Is tomcat is an application server? If so, why? (posted to article by 61.246.245.2 on Dec 11, moved here at 06:29, 15 Dec 2004(UTC))

Is this page about web servers or about Apache?

A. web servers, Apache is named for historical reasons (A Patchy Web Server derived from the first popular web server).

I have submitted the article HTTP cookie for peer review (I am posting this notice here as this article is related). Comments are welcome here: Wikipedia:Peer review/HTTP cookie. Thanks. - Liberatore(T) 16:56, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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