what does theu url, http://www.msn.com mean?

Question

i need to know what each part of the url stands for

Answer 1

http is just the service to use. Hypertext Transfer Protocol. There are others like ftp (file transfer protocol), smtp (simple mail transport protocol) that can be used.

The colon and // tell your browser that the letters to the left are the service.

www is the convention for web sites. Not required but it's what is normally used.

msn is the Microsoft Network. Microsoft owns the msn domain.

com is meant to be used by commercial companies but it's not written in stone.

www.msn.com is an alias for the IP address that's been assigned to the server the web site is hosted on.

Answer 2

http://www.msn.com stands for:

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, World Wide Web, Microsoft Network, Command

Answer 3

http is the protocol (compare to ftp, gopher, etc)
www means "world wide web" and is a default beginning for most web addresses; most browsers will add it if you type and address without it which doesn't exist on its own - i.e. type msn.com and you are redirected to http://www.msn.com)
msn is the site address. for every site there is a primary address (msn, in this case) and there can be subaddresses (example, help.msn.com) which precede the main address
.com is the domain (compare to .org, .eu, .mx, etc.) - some domains are purpose specific (.org for organizations, .gov for government) and some are country specific. .com is generally used for companies, but the domain use is a guideline and not a restriction, except in cases where the domain controller restricts its use

For more details, read the full details and spec from W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium), which you can link from here:
http://www.cafeaulait.org/course/week5/04.html

Answer 4

HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol Overview
WWW - world wide web
MSN - Microsoft Service network
COM - Component Object Model Technologies

Answer 5

URL
The URL field is self-explanatory. It’s the address location of the page to load. It should be a fully qualifying URL with the format protocol://server/page. A URL file is not restricted to the HTTP protocol. In general, at least, whatever that can be saved as a favorite is a valid URL.


Look here too:

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/URL-Format.html

Answer 6

http - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
www - World Wide Web
msn - MicroSoft Network
.com - Component Object Model

Answer 7

http -- HyperText Transfer Protocol
Two slashes // -- indicate security protocol used
www - World Wide Web
msn -- MicroSoft Network
com - Component Object Model

Answer 8

WWW is the prefix meaning WorldWideWeb, MSN is simply the name of the domain, and .COM represents that it is supposed to be a company (which it is.)

Answer 9

http is the server
www i think is worldwideweb (but i could be wrong)
msn is the name of the site
.com is one of the extensions that every web page has. theres also .org, .net, .gov