Re: HTTP question about style sheets (not really a core PHP question)

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, WILSON, Nick wrote: > Okay it's not really PHP but I figure someone will know > this one and save me tracking down exactly how it works. > > If I have a Web page with a .css link in it, ie > <link rel="stylesheet" href="/cgi-bin/styles/mystyle.css"> > > At what point in the client request is this made ? My gut feeling is that Whenever the developers of the browser felt like making it. > the request for a page is made and then the browser works out > that it should load this link and makes another GET request. Basically > I would have thought it was the same as the way images load, in that > the browser first retrives the page then parses it and loads each > src="...." image in it. This isn't an image, it's a stylesheet. > If this is right, how come the syntax is a href link, not a src one ? Because that's how it is. Don't futz with it. > Also if I have a PHP page that retrieves info from another site (via > fopen or fsockopen), will it > still be up to the browser to make another request and if it does, will it > make it to the PHP page that fetched the page or directly to the off site > link style sheet ? Any other files (LINK, IMG, EMBED, etc.) is a separate request. It may go to the same process, it may not. The PHP script, however, has stopped executing. > Hopefully the explanation makes enough sense that someone knows what I'm > asking. > > Nick > Hope my answers helped. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>