What goes on when requesting a URL in a browser?
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Mar 15, 20262134 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Not sure if this is the right forum to ask but I am wondering if there are any resources that talk about how requests from the browser can passed on to the server and then the information required is passed back to the browser. Specifically, I would like to know more about the innards - protocols u…
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The browser pulls the domain name from the URL (e.g. from https://superuser.com/posts/232820) and asks the operating system to turn that into an IP address. The operating system consults whatever name resolution methods are configured. Normally it w…
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