//localhost:1313/categories/networking/ Recent content in Networking on Zymacs Hugo en-us Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 //localhost:1313/post/http_downloads/ Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 //localhost:1313/post/http_downloads/ <p>Let&rsquo;s look at what happens from download instantiation by some download client to when all data in its completeness is transferred from the remote location to the downloader&rsquo;s storage.</p> <h2 id="getting-a-uri-to-a-remote-resource">Getting a uri to a remote resource</h2> <p>You have been given some link of the form <code>http://somesite.com:8031/file.txt</code> to a remote file. From the URL we can tell the remote file is located at the root folder <code>/</code> on the hosting server and that it is called <code>file.txt</code>. This website is on some server that supports the http protocol. Its hosted somewhere off your system accessible via a network.</p>