Hum ... something on networking, I guess. "Distributed Systems" by Tanenbaum provides a compact but very decent introduction to how the web works, but it's really a book about distributed systems, so...
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Hum ... something on networking, I guess. "Distributed Systems" by Tanenbaum provides a compact but very decent introduction to how the web works, but it's really a book about distributed systems, so...
And that's still incorrect, because an URL doesn't have to correspond to a file. On the HTTP level, the server receives something like this from the client:
POST url-from-action HTTP/1.1
Host:...
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