How does a browser match responses with request

[Anne Forumer]

A user can submit multiple requests from a browser. Say I click on one bookmark and before I see the response to it, I click on a second, different, bookmark and then a third different bookmark. How does a browser decide which of the three responses to show and what happens to the other two responses?

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[Eric Pascarello]

And what are these responses? Form request, XMLHttpRequest?

A bookmark is going to bookmark the url. So with that said, that is what you will get.

Eric

[Anne Forumer]

User is simply clicking on different URLs in succession before URLs show up. It shouldn't matter what kind of responses these are?

So, the browser receives responses to all of these clicks. How does it determine which of these responses to show?

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[Eric Pascarello]

Each time a user clicks, it overwrites the last response. Try it on any page and you will see it

Eric

[Anne Forumer]

If I click on link A and then link B and then response for link A arrives before response for link B, how does the browser know that it is response for link A? How does it then decide to not show it (or show it) because link B has been clicked?

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[Yuriy Fuksenko]

One fun way to look at what is going on would be to install Ethereal , or some other sniffer, than click on a link, and than see what is going on.

Also, I you might want to read something about protocols like HTTP, TCP, UDP, IP - just to understand how it works.

If you don't wont to go that deep, you can think that when you click on a link previous connection is dropped - so the browser itself never receives the previous click result.