Re: HTTP header processing sequence

"Josh" <no_spam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
Can someone tell me in plain english how HTTP requests are processed in sequence? For instance, if a web page has multiple GET
requests because of HTML/Images, how does the browser know which server response (HTTP/1.1 200 OK) is associated with which GET
request once the data starts coming in?

Apart from RFC2616, is there any website that can give me more information on this?

The browser opens a TCP connection to the server, sends a HTTP request
and waits for the server response (status + data) before sending the next
request. So the association of request and response is no problem.

The browser may send another request over the same TCP connection
once the response to the previous request has been received and/or may
open multiple connections to the same server.

Regards,
-Roger
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