Harvard Extension School
CSCI E-12 Fundamentals of Web Site Development | Fall 2019

## What the server does

The picture below outlines what we just saw:

The server is simply responding to HTTP requests, and sending responses back to the browser. The "how" of looking up courses in a database based on a keyword search term is beyond the scope of this lesson -- we will demystify that part later in the course.

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