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HTTP Daemon is a software program that runs in the background of a web server and waits for the incoming server requests. The daemon answers the request automatically and serves the hypertext and multimedia documents over the Internet using HTTP.

HTTPd stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon (i.e. Web server).

Some commonly used implementations are:

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