Http

Let’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’s storage.

Getting a uri to a remote resource

You have been given some link of the form http://somesite.com:8031/file.txt to a remote file. From the URL we can tell the remote file is located at the root folder / on the hosting server and that it is called file.txt. This website is on some server that supports the http protocol. Its hosted somewhere off your system accessible via a network.