How are pages retrieved by a web browser?
Channel: internet-class
Date: 2016-09-29

Retrieving a web page typically requires multiple GET requests. The first retrieves the initial HTML document. Subsequent requests then retrieve all the other parts of the page: stylesheets, images, JavaScript code, and other page components. The process is complex and its performance depends to a great deal on the resources that are involved.

Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).

Part of the https://www.internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.