What is the difference between asynchronous and synchronous HTTP request?

Question

What is the difference between asynchronous and synchronous HTTP request?

Answer 1

Sachin Gandhwani's answer is very well explained in simple words. In case you are still not convinced with the difference of asynchronous HTTP request and synchronous HTTP request, you can read this - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/Synchronous_and_Asynchronous_Requests