This post is based on the commonly referenced question, “what happens when you type www.google.com into the browser and hit enter, but uses https://www.holbertonschool.com/ as the example input. Before we begin, most browser’s have developer tools, which make it helpful to understand more about the code that powers a website. Since for the time being, I most often use Google Chrome, I’ve provided an example below of a section of the Chrome developer tools that I will reference in this post. To learn more about Chrome Dev Tools, visit, Network Analysis Reference. Chrome Dev Tools Concepts Covered: Browser, Cache, Hosts File DNS request, TCP/IP Firewall, HTTPS/SSL, Load-balancer Web server, Application server, Database Local Machine and Local Area Network: Browser auto-complete: your browser has it’s own auto-complete system based on history, cache, and bookmarks.  Assuming the site has never been visited, auto-complete will not be used, and the user will input the entire string, https://www.holbertonschool.com/. FQDN: The user input in this […]