[thelist] diagram for http request process for web page?

Matt Warden mwarden at gmail.com
Mon Dec 1 14:07:39 CST 2008


On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Petite Abeille <petite.abeille at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 1, 2008, at 7:48 PM, Matt Warden wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of a resource that would have a diagram of how a
>> browser processes a html page and request related resources like
>> images, css, js files? Ideally, it would include the possibility that
>> the resources are cached and not modified since the cache date.
>
> Not sure this is what you are looking for, but rather informative
> nonetheless:
>
> "An activity diagram to describe the resolution of HTTP response
> status codes, given various headers"
> -- Alan Dean
>
> http://thoughtpad.net/alan-dean/http-headers-status.gif
> http://thoughtpad.net/alan-dean/http-headers-status.html

Yeah, I came across that in my googling, but it is way too detailed
for my purposes.

Erika wrote:
> Found this page which shows the difference for yahoo.com
> http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/01/04/performance-research-part-2/

I knew I had seen this kind of thing before. It is not exactly what I
had in my head, but it gets at the same idea.

Thanks for your help, Erika and Petite.

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Matt Warden
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