The Web and the Browser
Alessia S. Fitz Gibbon
INFO 340
In this video...
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The Internet: Clients and Servers
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What the browser does
The Internet
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Servers: "host" the web pages and provide it upon request
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Clients (browsers): request web pages
protocol
domain
resource
"Hi Wikipedia, I'd like you to send me the Informatics page!"
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t
(how to handle info)
(who has info)
(what info you want)
Web Server
Response
Request
Web Requests
+
=
What's in a request?
en.wikipedia.org?
198.35.26.96
"wiki/Informatics"?
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head>...
What's in a response?
<html> <head> <title>My Fancy Title</title> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css"> <script src="script.js"></script> </head> <body> <h1>Hello world!</h1> </body> </html>
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By Alessia Fitz Gibbon
