What happens when you type a URL into your browser? The diagram below illustrates the steps. 1. Bob enters a URL into the browser and hits Enter. In this example, the URL is composed of 4 parts: 🔹 scheme - http://. This tells the browser to send a connection to the server using HTTP.
How does CDN play a role here ? I believe it comes between step 5 and 6. Can you elaborate here a bit..
I wrote an high level overview about the same topic at https://cloudnativeengineer.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-you-type-a-url.
I hope you find it useful.
over simplified version
I was recently asked on this. Does ARP involves in this process too? Or with the IP address found by DNS is sufficient enough?