What is a URL?

Question

I am supposed to type something and it says to put in URL and I don't know what to put down because I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS!!!

Answer 1

Uniform Resource Locator
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URL redirects here. For other uses of URL, see URL (disambiguation).

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.

The standard pronunciation of “URL” is as an initialism (“U-R-L”), but some people pronounce “URL” as an acronym (“Earl”).
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* 1 A popular synonym for "URI"
* 2 URI/URL syntax in brief
* 3 URLs as locators
* 4 Clean URLs
* 5 See also
* 6 References

[edit] A popular synonym for "URI"

Main article: Uniform Resource Identifier

The idea of a uniform syntax for global identifiers of network-retrievable documents was the core idea of the World Wide Web. In the early times, these identifiers were variously called "document names", "Web addresses" and "Uniform Resource Locators". But these names were misleading, since not all identifiers were locators, and even for those that were it was not the defining characteristics. But, by the time the RFC 1630 formally defined the term URI as a generic term best suited for the concept, the term "URL" gained widespread popularity, which has continued to this day.
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[edit] URI/URL syntax in brief

Main article: URI scheme#Generic syntax

Here is a typical URI dissected:

http://user:[e-mail]:992/animal/bird?species=seagull#wings
\___/ \_______/ \_________/ \_/\__________/\______________/\____/
| | | | | | |
protocol login 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, at the default HTTP port (see Port_80). Dereferencing URI mailto:[e-mail] will usually open a "Compose e-mail" window with the address [e-mail] in the "To" field.

"example.com" is a domain name; an IP address or other network address might be used instead.
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[edit] URLs as locators

In its current strict technical meaning, a URL is a URI which, “in addition to identifying a resource, [provides] a means of locating the resource by describing its primary access mechanism (e.g., its network ‘location’).”[1]
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[edit] Clean URLs

Clean URLs are URLs used by dynamic web pages yet look as if they were static web pages because they are free from any parameters. They are also free from filename extensions, thus hiding the type of server side technology used in the web application.
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[edit] See also

* Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI)
* History of the Internet
* Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI)
* Percent-encoding
* Rewrite engine
* Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
* URL normalization
* Website

[edit] References

1. ^ Tim Berners-Lee, Roy T. Fielding, Larry Masinter. (January 2005). “Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax”. Internet Society. RFC 3986; STD 66.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

A Universal Resource Locator, or URL, is a website address (domain). If it is saying to put in a URL, it is asking for the website address. You enter the address in your address bar (i.e. where you type www.yahoo.com to come here :-))

Answer 4

check video url

Answer 5

When it says write URL means type either starting if you are searching than type as http://www.yahoo.com or if you like to go straight just type www.yahoo.com both way you can reach to yahoo pages.www= world wide web

Answer 6

A URL is just the website adress. Go to your adress bar and copy and paste the adress into wherever you are supposed to enter it.

Answer 7

a URL is like a website, like www.yahoo.com or www. google.com

Answer 8

Its the address! Like for instance....www.yahoo.com

Answer 9

DON'T NO

Answer 10

It's a web address or a "link" like http://www.yahoo.com and so on.