Where does link download from?

[Beesknees]

I need to know something in general about browsing.
If there is a link on a page where does the href get uploaded from?
a. The client browser or,
b. the web server containing the page with the link on it?
I think it is A but I need to be very sure about this as the links will contain huge documents not held within the web server.
Urgent required please!!!!

 

[chiph]

The href is encoded on the page and points to where the HTML designed intended, or if the page is dynamically generated (ASP, PHP, DHTML, etc.) where the program points it.

Chip H.

 

[Beesknees]

it will be hard-coded into the html.
I actually meant, what processes the link, the browser or the web server?

 

[JohnYingling]

The Web Server to which the Link points.

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[Beesknees]

what if the link is do a documenty sitting on the network? This is an Intranet by the way.

 

[JohnYingling]

If the link is to a Network file rather than a http:\\ address then the browser should "fetch" the page from the network (not intranet) via "normal" LAN disk io.

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[Beesknees]

Thanks for everyone's input. You helped me work out that when the content is accessed through the LAN it is ok to be on network servers, when WAN users are accessing (still within same firm) the content is faster downloaded from the IIS server.