What happens in a browser when you enter a URL?

• A. It caches the website for offline access.
• B. It displays a search results page.
• C. It resolves the domain to an IP via DNS, connects to the server, requests the resource via HTTP/HTTPS, and renders the content.
• D. It sends the URL to a random server.

Answer: (C)

Typing a URL starts a fetch process where the browser first translates the domain into an IP address using DNS, then opens a connection to that server (using TLS for HTTPS), sends a request for the resource, and receives the response. After that, the browser parses the HTML, fetches and applies CSS, runs any JavaScript, and renders the page for display. This full sequence—DNS resolution, connecting to the server, requesting the resource, and rendering the content—is what happens when you enter a URL. The other choices aren’t reliable behavior: caching for offline access isn’t automatic for every visit, a search results page shows only if you started from a search engine, and sending the URL to a random server isn’t how browsers operate.