Page View Request?

[Ali Babarian]

Page View Request?

As I understand about the internet, when you open a webpage, first a Page View Request is uploaded from your computer and sent to the website. Then the website sends you the page you want to see which is downloaded to your computer. I looked at my internet speeds and noticed that Upload speed is much smaller than Download speed - and I wonder what the size of one of these Page Requests actually is? The internet for my computer does seem to wait a while before saying at the bottom "Downloading Page".

So my question is:
How big is the size in Bytes of a Page View Request? If it is dependent on the website, let's assume the webpage requested is about 500KB, which is about normal from what I've seen.

Cheers
AliB



ETA: Damn, I gave this a really stupid title, now no-ones looking out of sheer bloody-mindedness!

 

[Oscuro]

Re: Page View Request?

The requests are a few lines of plaintext, so they are very small compared to the replies. It's never really a problem (for ordinary browsing) even on very slow connections such as dialup.

Example request:

GET /index.php HTTP/1.1
Host: diablo.incgamers.com/forums

The server then sends back the page, which will contain references to other content such as images, which the browser then sends requests for.

 

[ffejrxx]

Re: Page View Request?

most isps slow down your upload speed to prevent web hosting, torrent sharing ect...

for most people 500k/s upload is more than enough
takes a while to upload large files to a server but will do it


if your getting long delays, there might be malware or host redirects somewhere on your computer

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