Let's learn how the client request flows through the server.
For understanding, request, and response flow. Let's consider the example of the Twitter home page.
- If you go to Twitter without logged-in, then it loads generic tweets based on user location.
- If you log in, then it loads the feeds personalized for you. Even for the same request, different data responses get sent based on the request context.
What exactly happens in-between the client request and server response?
The flow will be like this,
- Client browser sends a request to the URL – https://twitter.com
- The server gets the request, parses the request, and checks whether the requested URL is valid or not
- If not valid, then the server sends a 404 – not found response
- The server checks whether the request was from valid-user
- If not a valid user, then it tries to get the user location
- If it finds the user location, then it sends a response with user location-specific tweet data
- If it doesn't find the user location, then it sends a response with generic global tweets data
- If a valid user requested the data, then it sends the response with the user's personalized tweet feed
- This is how the request flows inside the server before sending a proper response from the server.
This example simplifies a lot of steps in-between to make it easy to understand. There might be many more steps like this before the server sends the response to the client.
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