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2023 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

4. What Happens When You Open a Website?

Author : Leticia Portella

Published in: A Friendly Guide to Software Development

Publisher: Apress

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Abstract

In the previous chapter, we launched our new e-commerce landing page, and now you want to show your family so they can see it. Your mom goes to a browser and types the URL you gave her: jollyfarm.co. Have you ever considered what happens when she presses enter?

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Footnotes
1
This format is the version 4 which is the most common. There are other versions that follow different formats.
 
2
Although being the most famous, there are many, many others. HTTP is the most common on typical web applications that we will address in this book. There is a specific way for emails (SMTP), for accessing files (FTP), watching a stream video (UDP), and many more.
 
3
It is standard to write HTTP methods as upper case letters, to indicate the protocol method rather than a regular verb.
 
4
If you are curious, have some laughs while learning status codes on https://httpstatusdogs.com/
 
5
In this case we are excluding comments and likes that require a more complex structure.
 
Metadata
Title
What Happens When You Open a Website?
Author
Leticia Portella
Copyright Year
2023
Publisher
Apress
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8969-3_4

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