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Chapter 8. DESIGNING A WEB INTERFACE > Web Basics
8.1. Web Basics
Web browsers communicate with webservers using the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), a client-server protocol. The communication is initiated from the web browser (the client) when it requests a web page via a particular Uniform Resource Locator (URL), for example, http://www.google.com. When the webserver receives this request, it checks that the requested page is available, and if it is, it sends the page to the web browser.
Because the HTTP protocol is text based, you can use telnet to imitate the browser request as follows:
