1. Your browser formed a connection to a Web server, requested a page and received it.
2. The browser broke the URL into three parts:
The protocol (¡°http¡±)
The server name (¡°www.mianwww.com¡±)
The file name (¡°index.html¡±)

3. The browser communicated with a name server to translate the server name ¡°www.e5systems.com.cn¡± into an IP Address, which it uses to connect to the server machine.

The browser then formed a connection to the server at that IP address on port 80. (We¡¯ll discuss ports later.)
4. Following the HTTP protocol, the browser sent a GET request to the server, asking for the file http://www.mianwww.com/index.html (Note that cookies may be sent from browser to server with the GET request.)

The server then sent the HTML text for the Web page to the browser. (Cookies may also be sent from server to browser in the header for the page.)

The browser read the HTML tags and formatted the page onto your screen. If the web page references other resources (e.g., pictures), the browser will request those resources as well in the same way.