WHATS A URL?

Answer 1

If you've been surfing the Web, you have undoubtedly heard the term URL and have used URLs to access HTML pages from the Web.

It's often easiest, although not entirely accurate, to think of a URL as the name of a file on the World Wide Web because most URLs refer to a file on some machine on the network. However, remember that URLs also can point to other resources on the network, such as database queries and command output.

Definition: URL is an acronym for Uniform Resource Locator and is a reference (an address) to a resource on the Internet.

The following is an example of a URL which addresses the Java Web site hosted by Sun Microsystems:

http://java.sun.com

As in the previous diagram, a URL has two main components:

* Protocol identifier (in our example this is "http")
* Resource name ( "java.sun.com")

Note that the protocol identifier and the resource name are separated by a colon and two forward slashes. The protocol identifier indicates the name of the protocol to be used to fetch the resource. The example uses the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which is typically used to serve up hypertext documents. HTTP is just one of many different protocols used to access different types of resources on the net. Other protocols include File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Gopher, File, and News.

The resource name is the complete address to the resource. The format of the resource name depends entirely on the protocol used, but for many protocols, including HTTP, the resource name contains one or more of the components listed in the following table:

Host Name: The name of the machine on which the resource lives.

Filename: The pathname to the file on the machine.

Port Number: The port number to which to connect (typically optional).

Reference: A reference to a named anchor within a resource that usually identifies a specific location within a file (typically optional).

For many protocols, the host name and the filename are required, while the port number and reference are optional. For example, the resource name for an HTTP URL must specify a server on the network (Host Name) and the path to the document on that machine (Filename); it also can specify a port number and a reference. In the URL for the Java Web site java.sun.com is the host name and an empty path or the trailing slash is shorthand for the file named /index.html.

Answer 2

A Uniform source Locator, URL, or internet address, is a standardized address for some source (at the same time with a rfile or image) on the internet (or someplace else). First created with the aid of Tim Berners-Lee for use on the international-extensive-internet, the presently used varieties are specific with the aid of IETF everyday.

Answer 3

It stands for "Uniform Resource Locater"......such as www.yahoo.com.

All addresses on the Internet are in fact a serious of numbers such as.....198.168.23.10

Because it would be imposable for us to remember what that represents the URL was devised to interpret something we can recognize and then find that web site without needing to know what that number is.

Answer 4

Universal Relocatable Locator

Answer 5

its part of the basics: a
uniform resource locator
a URL is what you see in the address bar in your browser.
for example, this is a URL: http://yahoo.com

Answer 6

hey
i m jasmin
Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator, the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.

Answer 7

uniform resource locator. AKA an address like http://www.yahoo.com

Answer 8

all you need to know is that it is the thing defines an objects place on the net like a house address

Answer 9

Previously..... universal resource locator
Now.......uniform resource locator