Customer Side

In a client-side computer application, it is the field in which a client executes its operations in a client-server relationship within a computer network.

Mostly, a client is understood as an application (for example a web browser), which runs on the user's local computer and connects a server when necessary. The main operations are carried out mainly on the client side, since the application needs information or functionalities that are only available in this area and not in the server, either because the user needs to observe and provide new data, or because the server lacks processing power to perform all operations relative to the clients it serves. In addition, maximizing the number of operations that occur on the client side without interacting with the server will take less time, less bandwidth will be used, and application security will increase. When the server sends information in a regular protocol, for example HTTP or FTP, users can choose between several different client programs to process it, be it a modern web browser that is able to send and receive information using the two protocols, or a specific application, such as an FTP client. Custom client-server relationships can also exist with the help of applications that resolve their own communication protocol.

Programs that run on a user's computer without sending or receiving information on a network are not considered clients, and the operations performed on these applications are not considered operations on the client side. Example

Distributed computing projects, such as SETI @ home, and popular applications like Google Earth basically depend on client side operations. The SETI @ home client initiates a connection to the server and prompts you for information. The server selects an appropriate information packet (this is a server-side operation) and sends it to the client. Then the client receives the information and analyzes it (client side operation) and, when the analysis is finished, it transmits the results back to the server.

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