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URLs specify the location for resources on the Internet. Examine the following URL and answer the following questions.
In the following URL:
www.example.com/homepage.html
What is the domain in this URL?
What is the path in this URL?
When this URL is typed into your browser, your browser generates a request based on the URL.
Where does this request get sent? What kind of machine is listening for this request?
What exactly is the request asking for? What does your browser expect to receive as a response?
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- What is the domain in this URL?
- www.example.com
- What is the path in this URL?
- /homepage.html (the path portion is the resource location on the host; often written with a leading slash)
- Where does the browser send the request? What kind of machine is listening?
- The browser first resolves the domain (www.example.com) via DNS to an IP address, then sends the request to that IP address on the web server port (default port 80 for HTTP; port 443 for HTTPS).
- A web server machine (physical or virtual, possibly behind a load balancer or CDN edge) is listening — specifically an HTTP server process/software (e.g., Apache, Nginx, IIS, a reverse proxy, or CDN software) that accepts TCP connections on the appropriate port.
- What exactly is the request asking for? What does the browser expect in response?
- The browser issues an HTTP request asking for the resource at the path /homepage.html, typically a GET request. Example request start:
- GET /homepage.html HTTP/1.1
- Host: www.example.com
- (other headers: User-Agent, Accept, etc.)
- The browser expects an HTTP response containing a status code and headers and normally the body of the resource (for this URL typically an HTML document with Content-Type: text/html). A successful reply is usually:
- HTTP/1.1 200 OK
- Content-Type: text/html; charset=...
- (other headers)
- [blank line]
- <html>…</html>
- If the resource is not found or moved the server may return 404, 301/302, etc. After receiving the HTML, the browser will parse it and make additional requests for linked resources (CSS, JavaScript, images).
- www.example.com
- What is the path in this URL?
- /homepage.html (the path portion is the resource location on the host; often written with a leading slash)
- Where does the browser send the request? What kind of machine is listening?
- The browser first resolves the domain (www.example.com) via DNS to an IP address, then sends the request to that IP address on the web server port (default port 80 for HTTP; port 443 for HTTPS).
- A web server machine (physical or virtual, possibly behind a load balancer or CDN edge) is listening — specifically an HTTP server process/software (e.g., Apache, Nginx, IIS, a reverse proxy, or CDN software) that accepts TCP connections on the appropriate port.
- What exactly is the request asking for? What does the browser expect in response?
- The browser issues an HTTP request asking for the resource at the path /homepage.html, typically a GET request. Example request start:
- GET /homepage.html HTTP/1.1
- Host: www.example.com
- (other headers: User-Agent, Accept, etc.)
- The browser expects an HTTP response containing a status code and headers and normally the body of the resource (for this URL typically an HTML document with Content-Type: text/html). A successful reply is usually:
- HTTP/1.1 200 OK
- Content-Type: text/html; charset=...
- (other headers)
- [blank line]
- <html>…</html>
- If the resource is not found or moved the server may return 404, 301/302, etc. After receiving the HTML, the browser will parse it and make additional requests for linked resources (CSS, JavaScript, images).
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