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No, because the browser initiates each connection.

• nailer 17y ago
  Just as a user running an X server initiates the clients to display on it.
  • ars 17y ago
    Actually no. The remote app server initiates clients to run on it. So the remote one is the client, and the local one is the server.
    • nailer 17y ago
      Actually no, you're confusing application serving (a term used in non X environments) with display serving (which X uses). X display servers (which we both agree are local) do not initiate clients to display on them, end users do this work - you can see this quite easily by initiating a client when you don't have an X display - the app will look for a $DISPLAY variable and attempt to connect to that display. The app is launched first by the user, and connects to the display server.
  • pohl 17y ago
    The distinction here is between starting a process and connecting to a listener to request services. Starting a process is not one of the two roles in the client/server relationship. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-server http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-server
    • nailer 17y ago
      Yes, but starting the application is done via a non-X means (typically SSH listening) before the app then seeks a listening display to connect to.