DNS > TCP > SSL > Request
You enter a URL, browser finds the IP address (from Cache/DNS), completes the 3-way TCP handshakes, completes the SSL/TLS key exchange, and sends a GET request to the server.
TCP Connection: SYN > SYN/ACK > ACK
SYN – Synchronize Sequence Numbers
How Browser Works?
Step 01: Browser downloads and start to parse the Source HTML.
Step 02: Browser starts to build the DOM and CSSOM
Step 03: Browser finds CSS and JS resources and starts to process them
Step 04: Browser makes the DOM Tree and CSSOM Tree
Step 05: Browser makes the Render Tree
Step 06: Browser makes the layout
Step 07: Browser starts to paint
Interesting Chrome Features
You can copy and paste each of these addresses on your Chrome browser and you’ll get some interesting data.
- chrome://site-engagement
- chrome://net-internals
- chrome://omnibox