what is a URL ?

Answer 1

Its a Universal Resource Locator

* 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.

Answer 2

Web pages are identified with a URL. It is an addressing method. Web pages are stored using a file system on the local server. The local server or data center is identified to people world wide through a 32 bit numbered address called an IPv4 address (soon possibly increasing in size to 128 bits with IPv6).

The URL, or universal resource locator, allows "people" to enter an easier to remember text designator for the address of the server, and then includes the final page file to identify to the server the requested page. The server address has to be resolved in a DNS, or domain name server that has a list and is able to convert the text to the actual location of the server (that it, it's IP address).

So an url would look like
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/xxxxx

where xxxxx was the page you are trying to access.

A domain name server would be used initially to determine the actual IP address of "answers.yahoo.com" so that the proper location could be addressed. Then the yahoo servers at that location would have to parse out and determine where within their network to send the /question/xxxxx request.

Network hardware prefer IP addresses (or lower level Mac addresses, but numbers in any case). So, if you set up a network for your location you would remember you dealt with IP addresses (in the form 192.168.nnn.mmm) or Mac addresses. Your own IP address is translated and is used by the Yahoo server in the above example to return your responses to you. So, in that case your "URL" is your actual non-textual IP address. This is because there is no need for the target server to "talk" in human preferred language.

Answer 3

Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator, means the address of documents and resources on the world wide web.
World Wide Web URLs begin with http://
A URL looks like http://www.yahoo.com/

Answer 4

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”).

Answer 5

URL is an acronym for Uniform Resource Locator. It is used to to locate resources on the Internet. The most commonly used URL is for locating web pages, or hypertext documents, using a protocol called Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). An example of this is http://answers.yahoo.com

Some common protocols used as URLs include:
ftp://
http://
https://
gopher://
telnet://
file://
mailto://
news://

The most common format of the URL is protocol://host/path, but can include other pieces of information, including user name/password combinations, port numbers, queries and anchor/fragments.

Answer 6

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

Answer 7

its what the guy before me siad but its the direct location of a page for instance my url is

www.myspace.com/michelle209_m

the/michelle209_m is my url

Answer 8

Universal Resource Location


It's the end of the word CURL


Good luck with the answers

Answer 9

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).

Answer 10

universal resource locator