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How Browsers Work
Browsers convert address-bar input into normalized URLs or search queries, resolve domain names to IPs, send HTTP requests with headers, and fetch resources to render pages.
Before we can use a web server, we need to learn more about URLs so that we better understand how everything works. With web browsers, we use addresses to tell them where to go that look like this: https://exploringjs.com/js/ Such addresses are called URLs - Universal Resource Locators. We may think of them as addresses for web sites but they are addresses for resources (most commonly files): If we go to a website, the browser downloads an HTML file and displays it.