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If you type a Website address or URL (Uniform Resource Locator) such as www.dulux.co.uk no matter where you are in the world, the page pops up on your screen!

Basically, the following diagram shows the steps that brought that page to your screen:

Your browser broke the URL www.dulux.co.uk into 3 parts:

    1.   The protocol = http://
    2.   The server/domain name = www.dulux.co.uk
    3.   The file name i.e. any other names that follow such as /ukretail

    • The browser then translated that address into an IP Address, which it uses to connect to the server computer.
    • The browser then formed a connection to the server at that IP address.
    • Following the HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol), the browser sent a GET request to the server,
      asking for the file www.dulux.co.uk
    • The server then sent the HTML (hypertext markup language) code for the Web page to the browser
    • The browser read the HTML code and produced the page onto your screen