👨‍💻: In previous articles, we talked about what the Internet and WWW are and their history, and then we talked about URLs and how the Internet and web work at a very high level. Now we will talk about some internals of how a browser makes a request and a series of steps that happens before the page gets rendered in the browser. As there are many great articles the idea is to point them out and put them in an order that we can consume and understand.

How the browser works

The following is a brilliant article explaining how a browser makes a request and all the steps involved in rendering the requested web page.

web.dev/howbrowserswork

The below article talks about how browsers work more in the aspect of performance. Although this article might be overwhelming as we are just starting up but take a look at it

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Perfor..

Journey of web page

The following article also talks about how the browser works but it also explains the OSI model, three-way handshake, and a bit more network-related stuff to understand a bit more about the internals.

dev.to/gitpaulo/journey-of-a-web-page-how-b..

More about DNS

If you want to learn more about the path involved in the conversion of URL to IP address then check the below link.

howdns.works

More about HTTPS

As URLs we might access may be secure too, it would be good to know about HTTPS, TLS, and SSL.

howhttps.works

👨‍💻: In upcoming articles, let's start talking about HTML and how we can use it to create web pages.