Anatomy of a Web Request

Slides
3/9/2018 at ConFoo Montreal in Montreal, Québec, Canada

What happens after you type the web address before the page renders? Is it a black box to you? It doesn’t need to be. We’ll peel back the onion and look at DNS, HTTP, TLS, and briefly discuss the client render pipeline and windows metaphors. Ultimately we’ll see the internet is not a black box. Open the lid and look inside.