Explain what happens when you type domain in the browser and press enter
Resolve IP address of the URL via DNS
Generate an HTTP request with headers (
accept
,user-agent
,cookie
, etc)Open an HTTP connection to the resolved IP address
Send the request to the server
Receive the response from the server
Parse response headers
Depending on the response headers, perform additional operations
Decompress the response body if it's compressed (e.g. gzipped)
Parse the HTML code inside the response body
Resolve any additional resources (images, stylesheets, scripts, etc)
Start loading those resources via their URLs using the same steps
Render the HTML as soon as required resources are loaded, continue loading remaining resources in background
When all the resources are loaded, close the HTTP connection
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