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developing a web page and application server..?

I need the same application on a Web server to handle both handling web page get or post requests ( securely) as well as talk to a remote application using a listening TCP or UDP socket. For example, a web page action may prompt fetch of data from the socket connection. Another web page action may trigger sending a packet on the socket connection. The program will need to authenticate the remote application connecting on the socket and handle updates to a database based on that and web page activity as well. What is the best way to go about this? I am limited to Windows but will have a dedicated server for this activity. This will be development not demo so reliability and redundancy not too important now. Thanks. I see you can do both, but can I just have a constantly running looping application in PHP handling both rather than through .php files initiating the application only on browsing activity? My feet aren't wet yet as you can see. I just want to confirm before I get in.

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1. I'd use PHP on the server. I do a bidirectional socket app in PHP and handling GETs and PIOSTs are simple. And PHP installs nicely on Windows (although I've only installed it on Apache myself, but it's supposed to install on IIS also).