Except HTTPS. Now the whole thing gets an order of magnitude more complex. Plus this is only for the initial request - never mind the complex dance of prefetching, pipelining, keepalives and CDNs that happens once index.html is retrieved (/while it is being retrieved).<p>This is my favourite intro to the subject: <a href="https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when/blob/master/README.rst" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when/blob/master/README...</a>