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What is a client?

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Thursday March 4, 2010
If you hire a lawyer, you're their client. They provide a service to you. In the computer world, it's not so very different; you are the client, the server is the service provider. Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan explains.

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- A client requests information from a host.

- A client is a person or application software that makes the request.

- FileZilla, for example, is an FTP client because it's used to get information from a server.

- Thunderbird is an email client because it gets your email from the email server.

- When you visit butterscotch.com, we are the host and you are the client.
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