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Clients, servers and requests

How the web actually works

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A website is a conversation, not a place

When you type checkvibe.dev into a browser, nothing is "opened" the way a file on your laptop is opened. Your browser sends a message to another computer somewhere in the world, and that computer sends a message back.

The message you send is called a request. The message that comes back is a response. Everything on the web is that pair, repeated thousands of times a second.

  1. Your browser

    the client

  2. Request

    GET /pricing

  3. Our server

    runs the code

  4. Response

    HTML, 200 OK

Every page you have ever loaded is this, repeated.

Request out, response back. That is the whole web.