Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

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A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), otherwise known as a Universal Resource Locator, is the address of a resource on the Internet and the protocol used to access it.

It indicates the location of a web resource like a street address indicates where a person lives physically — because of this, an URL is often referred to as: “web address”.

A URL contains the following information:

The Protocol used to access the resource.The location of the server (whether by Internet Protocol Address (IP Address) or Domain Name).The Port Number on the Server (optional).The location of the resource in the directory structure of the Server.A fragment identifier (optional).A URL is a type of uniform resource identifier (URI). In common practice, the term URI isn't used, or is used synonymously with URL, even though this is technically incorrect.

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