The Web and the Browser

Joel Ross

LIS 549

In this video...

  • The Internet: Clients and Servers

  • What the browser does

The Internet

  • Servers: "host" the web pages and provide it upon request

  • Clients (browsers): request web pages

protocol

domain

resource

"Hi Wikipedia, I'd like you to send me the Informatics page!"

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(how to handle info)

(who has info)

(what info you want)

Web Server

Response

Request

Web Requests

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