- Resolve IP address of the URL via DNS
- Generate an HTTP request with headers (
accept,user-agent,cookie, etc) - Open an HTTP connection to the resolved IP address
- Send the request to the server
- Receive the response from the server
- Parse response headers
- Depending on the response headers, perform additional operations
- Decompress the response body if it's compressed (e.g. gzipped)
- Parse the HTML code inside the response body
- Resolve any additional resources (images, stylesheets, scripts, etc)
- Start loading those resources via their URLs using the same steps
- Render the HTML as soon as required resources are loaded, continue loading remaining resources in background
- When all the resources are loaded, close the HTTP connection