Suddenly, a glowing book appeared on his desk: by Andy Harris. The cover promised to help him build websites that "work like pros".
Dave opened the book, and a tiny, animated character named hopped off the page. JavaScript & AJAX for Dummies
The book flipped to a page titled showing the messenger's journey: Suddenly, a glowing book appeared on his desk:
The agent reaches the server and says "Hello!" The server acknowledges with a status code—hopefully the famous 200 OK . The book flipped to a page titled showing
Once upon a time in the land of Static-Web, a young developer named Dave sat in front of his monitor, sighing. Every time a visitor clicked a button on his site, the entire page vanished for a second, blinked white, and then reloaded everything from scratch just to show one tiny line of text. It was like a waiter at a restaurant who, every time you asked for a clean fork, insisted on taking your food back to the kitchen, remodeling the dining room, and then bringing everything back out again. "There has to be a better way," Dave muttered.
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The agent is hired and the path to the server is opened.