Web Clients are one of the ways to deploy Solutions to end users.

Web Client is a browser-based application of which the  UI is rendered in the browser using pure HTML, CSS and a bit of JavaScript for event handling and communication with the Servoy Application Server. The  business logic of the Solution that is running in the Web Client is executed on the Application Server for security reasons: the code of the business logic is not exposed in the webpage markup.

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Supported Browsers

The Servoy Web Client runs in the last few versions of all modern browsers, like Mozilla FireFox, Safari, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer.

See Web Client Settings for more info on enabling/disabling anchors.

Basic Authentication Support for Login

If a solution running in the Web Client does not define a specific form as login form, Servoy will serve a standard SignIn page to the user (a basic html page with a username and password field).

Instead of showing the default SignIn HTML page, it's also possible to show the default browser basic authentication dialog, using one of the two following approaches:

1. Append '/sv_auth_type/basic' to the Web Client URL. For example:  {serverURL}/servoy-webclient/ss/s/{mySolutionName}/sv_auth_type/basic
2. Or enable it for all Web Clients (or in the developer for testing purposes) by setting the admin page property servoy.webclient.basic.authentication to true