The browser when you click a link

• STEP 1: Check for HSTS Basically a list of connections (preloaded or otherwise) of URLs which need to use HTTPS [[step 1]]
• Use HTTPS
• Written by Ali Alabbas
• BASED ON: https://alistapart.com/article/server-to-client/
• Check if there is a fresh DNS Cache
• Should the cache be use at all? Check if no-store
• Make a DNS lookup
• Use the domain information in the cache
• Establish a connection with the IP address
• Reuse the connection
• Perform TLS handshake
• Send the first request to the server
• Check the HTTP header. Is there a redirect?
• Read the response and write to the network cache in parallel
• Return to step 1 :$
• Try to understand the MIME type of the file
• So it can be interpreted propertly: Images vs stylesheets vs HTML, etc.
• LOAD RESOURCE IN THE BROWSER
• Is HTML or SVG and contains links
• Return to [[step 1]] :$ for each resource