What is a URL?

   
  URL is the acronym for Uniform Resource Locator.
A URL is the pointes to information that can be accessed by browsers.
URLs enable a single browser program to incorporate many of the functions that normally require several other software packages including FTP, news, Email and gopher.

For example, the URL "ftp://ftp.cs.dal.ca/htmlasst/htmlasst.zip" could be used in an HTML document to enable a browser to retrieve the 'HTML Assistant' program files from an FTP site.

Compare it with a phone book....
the phone book lists names and their phone numbers.
On the internet, a URL is the name, and the IP address is the number.
It's that easy.
   
 

 

   
 

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