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The way computers agree to talk to each other is known as a protocol. In this video we'll discuss the protocol that web browsers and web servers use and how this ties into Node.js.
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Let's start with the web browser.
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A web browser is an application that is
used to download and
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render HTML and CSS and execute any client
side JavaScript.
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You type in a website address into a
browser's address bar and hit enter, and
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it sends a request for information to a
server or
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a computer on the internet that has that
domain name assigned to it.
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Part of the information that the server
receives in the request is the address or
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the URL that the client has entered.
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A URL will have a path to a file like
index.html.
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