Server – Client communication algorithm for web pages

Client algorithm

• Communication channel setup
• Send request data
• Wait for response
• Receive response data
• Process response
• Display web page content

Server

• Listen for incoming requests
• Reply to channel setup
• Receive request
• Process request
• Prepare response
• Send response

There are multiple ways of designing such a client-server communication protocol. Waiting (or listening) for a request/response may require a loop or an event/interrupt driven solution. Please consider the exceptional cases of the algorithm where a timeout, error, or disconnection may occur. Think about the recovery steps for such cases in both sides of the communication.

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