Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
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.
