What is a client-server interaction?
In this section, we’ll look more closely at a particular real-world, non-computational service: the postal system. In doing so, we will see that most of the major properties of client-server interactions are present in familiar transactions. The main service provided by the postal system is the transmission of physical letters and packages. In this sense, it is perhaps the original mail server. Its clients are the people who send and receive mail through the system. The post office (or, more generally, the postal system) is the server. It may be obvious that the recipient of mail is a client of the postal system: A recipient gets mail delivery from the postal system. Perhaps less intuitively, the sender of the mail is also a client (of another service of) the postal system: the sender relies on the post office to provide the service of transmitting the letter. We will return to this point later.
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