The Mighty, Mighty Browser

Behold the mighty browser:

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When we tell a browser that we want a website or a page on a website, it sends a request through the internet to a machine that we call a web server as shown in the figure.

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To reach the correct server, our browser has to look up the network address of the web server on the internet. The browser uses the Domain Name Service (DNS) to perform that lookup. When we visit http://www.code3Dgames.com, DNS replies with a network address of 151.101.1.195. That network address—sometimes called an Internet ...

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