A common interview question: “What happens when you type a URL into your browser?”
Here are two articles that will help you understand it in depth.
This article dive deeps into each of the 6 steps below
- You type a URL in your browser and press Enter
- Browser looks up IP address for the domain
- Browser initiates TCP connection with the server
- Browser sends the HTTP request to the server
- Server processes request and sends back a response
- Browser renders the content
This article delves into “How internet traffic is routed to your website or web application”.
It explains how Amazon Route 53 routes traffic for your domain and breaks it down into 9 steps as shown is figure below.
So now you should be able to explain in detail if this question is asked to you in an interview 