What can a website see when I visit?

Yes, website owners can see who visits their website and often with a great detail of useful information. Therefore online identifiers, including cookie identifiers, internet protocol addresses and device identifiers cannot be seen by website owners. …

How does the server know who you are?

It typically takes legal action of some sort to force an ISP to release such information. So, a server knows the IP address through which you connect, and that might be used to identify you, assuming law enforcement gets involved.

Can a website see your IP address?

Assuming you’re using a router (as you should), those web sites can only see the router’s IP address, not your PC’s. And they can see how often you (or someone else sharing your router) visit their website. But they won’t be able to see that forever. Chances are your IP address is not a permanent fixture.

What happens when a client tries to browse a website?

After successful connection, browser (client) sends a request to a server that I want this content. The server knows everything of what response it should send for every request. Hence, the server responds back. This response contains every information that you requested like web page, status-code, cache-control, etc.

When you go to a website your web browser requests a Web page from?

Browser Sends Request After a browser has performed the DNS lookup, it sends an HTTP request to the appropriate server. It doesn’t have to literally be HTTP. It can be HTTPS or more recently an HTTP/2 request. The general idea though it that your browser sends a request for a specific file, often an HTML file.

How can a DNS server find a website?

A records are the heart of DNS. An A Record is (more often than not) the type of record that tells an incoming request where to find the website they are looking for. One component An A Record for a domain stores an IP address for a specific hostname, such as: @ (no hostname, just the domain example.com.

Do websites see your IP address?