Web Technologies and Client-Server Model
Understanding the interaction between browsers and servers through HTTP and DNS.
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Understanding the interaction between browsers and servers through HTTP and DNS.
Key Questions
- How does a DNS server resolve a human readable URL into an IP address?
- What are the differences between client side and server side processing?
- How has the transition to IPv6 addressed the limitations of IPv4?
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