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Request Life Cycle.
1. Web page request comes from browser.
2. IIS maps the ASP.NET file extensions to ASPNET_ISAPI.DLL, an ISAPI extension provided with ASP.NET.
3. ASPNET_ISAPI.DLL forwards the request to the ASP.NET worker process (ASPNET_WP.EXE or W3P.EXE).
4. ISAPI loads HTTPRuntime and passes the request to it. Thus, HTTP Pipelining has begun.

5. HTTPRuntime uses HttpApplicationFactory to either create or reuse the HTTPApplication object.

6. HTTPRuntime creates HTTPContext for the current request. HTTPContext internally maintains HTTPRequest and HTTPResponse.
7. HTTPRuntime also maps the HTTPContext to the HTTPApplication which handles the application level events.
8. HTTPApplication runs the HTTPModules for the page requests.
9. HTTPApplication creates HTTPHandler for the page request. This is the last stage of HTTPipelining.
10. HTTPHandlers are responsible to process request and generate corresponding response messages.
11. Once the request leaves the HTTPPipeline, page level events begin.
12. Page Events are as follows: PreInit, Init, InitComplete, PreLoad, Load, Control evetns (Postback events), Load Complete, PreRender, SaveStateComplete, Render and Unload.
13. HTTPHandler generates the response with the above events and sends back to the IIS which in turn sends the response to the client browser.