Inline Linking - Inline Linking and HTTP

Inline Linking and HTTP

The technology behind the World Wide Web, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), does not make any distinction of types of links—all links are functionally equal. Resources may be located on any server at any location.

When a web site is visited, the browser first downloads the textual content in the form of an HTML document. The downloaded HTML document may call for other HTML files, images, scripts and/or stylesheet files to be processed. These files may contain tags which supply the URLs which allow images to display on the page. The HTML code generally does not specify a server, meaning that the web browser should use the same server as the parent code (). It also permits absolute URLs that refer to images hosted on other servers ().

When a browser downloads an HTML page containing such an image, the browser will contact the remote server to request the image content.