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What does my browser   do?

So how is a web page   created for me?

What information needs   to be shared in order for   a web page to be created   for me?

So how do cookies get   onto my browser?



About your web browser




What does my browser do?

When you type a web page address such as www.allaboutcookies.org into your browser, that web page in its entirety is not actually stored on a server ready and waiting to be delivered. In fact each web page that you request is individually created in response to your request.

You are actually calling up a list of requests to get content from various resource directories or servers on which the content for that page is stored. It is rather like a recipe for a cake - you have a shopping list of ingredients (requests for content) that when combined in the correct order bakes a cake (the web page). As soon as you move to another page, the page that you have just viewed disappears. This is the dynamic nature of websites.