What is a URL

URL stand for Uniform Resource Locator. A URL is the address of a web site page or document on the Internet. For example the address of this page is http://www.internet-guide.co.uk/upload.html. Every URL is unique in it's location.


Anatomy of a URL - http:// www.internet-guide.co.uk /index.html

http:// - short for Hypertext Transfer Protocol

www. - page on the World Wide Web

internet-guide.co.uk - the domain name

index.html - This is the web page inside the folder.


 

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