Did a blog post about what happens when you type "www.google.com" in your browser and press enter

Upon typing in "[google.com](http://google.com/)" and pressing Enter, the browser takes a number of steps which can be outlined as follows:

Resolve IP address of the URL via DNS.
Generate an HTTP request with headers (accept, user-agent, cookie, etc).
Open an HTTP connection to the resolved IP address.
Send the request to the server.
Receive the response from the server.
Parse response headers.
Depending on the response headers, perform additional operations.
Decompress the response body if it's compressed (e.g. gzipped).
Parse the HTML code inside the response body.
Resolve any additional resources (images, stylesheets, scripts, etc).