KwickClips Networks and the Internet · 48 sec · free
What finds the web server's IP address?
Short answer. DNS, the Domain Name System.
What does the web server send back?
The HTML page.
Opening a page
| Step | Who |
|---|---|
| Get IP address | DNS |
| Request page | browser, HTTP |
| Send HTML | web server |
| Show page | browser |
Remember
| DNS, HTTP, server |
| Browser shows HTML |
You type a URL. What happens next? Four steps happen. DNS finds the IP address. The browser sends an HTTP request. The web server sends HTML. The browser shows the page. DNS, HTTP and the server work together. The browser shows HTML.
This clip is from the full lesson: Introduction to Web Services: HTML, XML and Web Technologies — 8 minutes, with the tables, the quick answers and the whole lesson in text.
Useful for: CBSE Class 10 Computer Applications (165), CBSE Class 12 Computer Science (083)
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