What happens on hitting enter on a link in the browser?

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• Prerequisites
  • Networking fundamentals
  • OSI layers
  • BGP
  • DNS
    • How DNS Works
    • DoH
    • DNS
  • TCP
  • TLS, ALPN, SNI, OCSP, etc…
  • HSTS and TLS Stripping
  • HTTP
  • Proxy or load balancer
    • The Anatomy of a Proxy Server
    • Proxy vs Reverse Proxy
    • Reverse Proxy vs Load Balancer
    • Layer 4 vs Layer 7 Load Balancer
    • L4 vs L7 LB use cases
  • HTTP GET
  • HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 working
• What happens when (you) type google.com into your browser address box and hit enter?
• Documented consolidation of everything