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AgentScreech t1_j6crng6 wrote

Reply to comment by 13lettersinhere in ELi5 : If you can access a website, why cant you steal the source code and make a 1:1 copy of it? by 13lettersinhere

It's like if you stole a menu from a restaurant. You would know what it was supposed to make, but you don't have the kitchen or the cooks.

When you go to a website, you interact with the frontend (menu in this analogy). The "backend" is the thing that processes your request (kitchen) and returns the result to the frontend to be presented

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