Editing Web server (section)

===== Regular files =====
If a web server program receives a client request message with an URL whose path matches the file name of an existing ''file'' and that file is accessible by web server program and its attributes match internal rules of web server program, then web server program can send that file to client.

Usually, for security reasons, most web server programs are pre-configured to serve only [[regular file]]s or to avoid to use ''special file types'' like [[device file]]s, along with [[symbolic link]]s or [[hard link]]s to them.  The aim is to avoid undesirable side effects when serving static web resources.<ref name="web-server-http">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oxg8_i9dVakC&pg=PA38|title=HTTP developer's handbook|author=Chris Shiflett|year=2003|access-date=2021-12-09|language=en|publisher=Sams's publishing|isbn=0-672-32454-7|archive-date=20 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230120185219/https://www.google.it/books/edition/HTTP_Developer_s_Handbook/oxg8_i9dVakC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA38&printsec=frontcover|url-status=live}}</ref>