This time of information technology is difficult to imagine without a web browser. We all use these tools to access any information in the world through the Internet. If I compare the Internet with a library, the web browser is the entrance to that library.
We'll try to figure out what web browsers do, how they work today. Let's get into the main discussion without talking.
What is a web browser?
Web browsers are a type of software that allows any website to be viewed over the Internet, use various web applications and transfer digital files.
A web browser communicates with a webserver on your behalf and presents it beautifully to you with information from it as needed.
According to the definition of Maryam-Webster Dictionary, web browsers are the type of computer programs used to access websites or information using networks like the World Wide Web.
How does the browser work?
The places where internet information is stored are called web servers. Websites or pages on webservers are usually written in HTML or any other computer language.
Which are very incomprehensible to the common man. The browser presents these languages by converting them into human languages.
When you write a URL or web address in a web browser address bar, the browser sends a request to the specified web server to show the webpage via the Internet.
Immediately, the webserver responded to the request and sent the code of the webpage to the browser. The browser now converts those codes into human languages and presents them to you in the form of web pages.
The code also contains instructions on how to convert the codes from the browser webserver. Web developers write down the codes. The browser plays a lot of translators.
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Just as the browser cannot access a code on its own, it cannot translate the code in its own way.
Giving an example will make sense. Suppose you write the URL or web address www.drtechies.com, you see this website on the browser address bar.
Which is basically a domain. What domains do and how it works is not the talk of the town today.
However, now the browser will send requests from the web address to get its codes on the server where the CenterBangla webpage is located and send those codes from the server to the browser.
This time the webpage will be shown by translating browser codes into your language. You can view the webpage as well as its codes if you want.
There are a number of ways to do that. The easiest way is to press the keyboard F12 button when the webpage arrives. You can also click on the left side button of the mouse to see the View page source or Inspect text.
It's not just by writing an address on the address bar that the webpage appears in the browser. Even when you click on a link or button on the webpage, the web browser sends a request to the webserver of that link on the server and presents the specified page to you.
Current web browsers can do a variety of things besides showing web pages. Can also open PDF or various media files. However, in this article, we briefly tried to find out basic about web browsers. Next, keep an eye on our website or Facebook page to read more about it.
