How the Web Works

Intro

Working on the web is different from any other medium. For the Web to work, there are two parts: The client and the server.

You are probably familiar with some Web clients, or Web Browsers. Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge are all web browsers that are programmed to send messages to servers identified with URLs, get data back from the server, and render that data into the cat picture gallery that you are browsing.

But how does it work? How does the browser know which server to contact when you type in a URL? How can you get your own web domain? And how does the browser know what to do with the data when it gets it from the server? All of these things are covered in this badge.

Suggested Learning

• Why the Web is important - A comment on an article about why the web is important.
• Terms to Know
• How the Internet Works
• How the Web Works
• What Browser - Find out what browser you are using and why that matters
• How DNS Works - How does google.com translate into the IP address 8.8.8.8
• HTTP - How HyperText Transfer Protocol works.

Requirements

• Study the items in the suggested learning
• Write a summary of what you learned and share it on the #requirements Discord channel to show you have passed this requirement off.

Extra Learning

This list is by no means complete. Feel free to add an issue or put in a pull request to update it.