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Asked: 2026-05-13T10:56:33+00:00

I feel the term webserver communication is not right when it comes to just

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I feel the term “webserver communication” is not right when it comes to just accessing an server to retrieve information.

Example:

iPhone connects to http://foobar.foo/bar.php?foo=bar&bar=foo and receives an XML. XML is parsed on the iPhone.

iPhone connects to some server and sends some instructions + data to store some stuff there. Lets say XML-RPC or something like that. Server processes that stuff, saves it and sends a response like “OK”.

You get it…iPhone talks to server, server talks to iPhone. For me, Webservice and Webserver is the same thing, both are called with an URL and both respond something.

So waht’s the correct term when I wanted to mention this sort of thing when talking to a computer scientist (studied)?

“Webservice communcation”?
“Webserver communication”?
“Call”? … i mean… yeah you know what I mean. I hope so 😉

note:
1) my english is bad
2) never studied cs

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think any of these would be fine:

    • Web request (if it’s HTTP, FTP, other “web protocol”)
    • Network call/request (more generic)
    • HTTP request (if you want to be specific about HTTP)
    • Web service call (web services are associated with SOAP/XML a lot of times, but the term applies to any web-base service call)
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