what is url?

Answer 1

another word for website
or the website URL like you know, ummm
googles URL, is www.google.com

Answer 2

url Uniform Resource Locator Definition

The URL is the address of a resource, or file, available on the Internet. The URL contains the protocol of the resource (e.g. http:// or ftp://), the domain name for the resource, and the hierarchical name for the file (address). For example, a page on the internet may be at the URL http://www.learnthat.com/define/u/url.shtml. The beginning part, http:// provides the protocol, the next part www.learnthat.com is the domain, the main domain is learnthat.com, while www is a pointer to a computer or a resource. The rest, /define/u/url.shtml is the pointer to the specific file on that server.

The URL could point to other things, CGI programs, Java programs, graphic files, or other resources available on the Internet.






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Answer 3

Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator, the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.
The first part of the address indicates what protocol to use, and the second part specifies the IP address or the domain name where the resource is located.

For example, the two URLs below point to two different files at the domain pcwebopedia.com. The first specifies an executable file that should be fetched using the FTP protocol; the second specifies a Web page that should be fetched using the HTTP protocol:

ftp://www.pcwebopedia.com/stuff.exe
http://www.pcwebopedia.com/index.html

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/URL.html

Answer 4

An Internet address (for example, http://www.hmco.com/trade/), usually consisting of the access protocol (http), the domain name (www.hmco.com), and optionally the path to a file or resource residing on that server (trade).

Uniform Resource Locator) The address that defines the route to a file on an Internet server (Web server, FTP server, mail server, etc.). URLs are typed into a Web browser to access Web pages and files, and URLs are embedded within the pages themselves as hypertext links. The URL contains the protocol prefix, port number, domain name, subdirectory names and file name. If a port number is not stated in the address, port 80 is used as the default for HTTP traffic.

Answer 5

The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a technical, Web-related term used in two distinct meanings:

in popular usage, it is a widespread synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)—many popular and technical texts will use the term "URL" when referring to URI;
in strict technical usage, it is a subset of URI specific to identifiers who are primarily locators.
http://example.com:992/animal/bird?species=seagull#wings
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scheme host port path query fragment
Every URI (and therefore every URL) begins with the scheme name which defines its namespace, purpose and syntax of the remaining part of the URI. Most Web-enabled programs will try to dereference a URI according to the semantics of its scheme and a context-specific heuristics. For example, a Web browser will usually dereference a http://example.org by performing a HTTP request to the host example.org, port 80. Dereferencing URI mailto:[e-mail] will usually open a "Compose e-mail" window with the address [e-mail] in the "To" field.

Answer 6

Its that thing you write at the top of the page to go to a web site,
like:

http://www.google.com

would be a URL.

URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
n. (Computers) string of characters which defines the location of a file or program on the Internet

Hope this helps :)

Answer 7

Url is a website address like www.yahoo.com, or www.google.com. Like if you have a website you would put www.whateveryouwant.com or .org or .net or whatever.

Answer 8

It's the address of a website, look above at Yahoos, that's one.

Answer 9

It's the name you use to access a web site like http://uk.answers.yahoo.com

Answer 10

universal resouce locator also known as web address