Definitions for
browser
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Browser is an application, which helps us to view the Web sites and the web content.
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Web sites are located in some remote systems, which needs a special kind of program
or an application to access them, such an application is called browser.
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A browser is an application which you can use to retrieve web pages from web sites
and view.
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When you type a URL in the browser, the browser will convert it into a web request which
web server can understand. Browser will send the request to web server using the
HTTP protocol.
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When a web server returns a web page as a Response, the browser will
understand the response and display the body of the response to the user in browser.
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In simple terms a browser can be defined as “A software application used to locate
and display Web pages”
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You can create your own simple browser application using C++, C#, VB.NET or any
other language you like. All you need to know is, how to compose a request which
web server can understand, how to parse and display the response from web server
and communicate with webserver using HTTP protocol.
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Even though the basic job of browser is just send requests to web server and receive
response from the server, modern browser provide several other enhanced features
including Back/Forward buttons, save viewed files to disk so that they can be viewed
later, cache images so that the same images need not be downloaded again and again
etc.
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Internet Explorer, Netspace, Mozilla are some of the popular web browsers
currently available in the market.
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Netscape was the most popular web browser till 4-5 years back, but currently more
than 90% of the internet users use "Internet Explorer" to browse the websites.
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