====== 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 [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:p:protocol]] used to access the resource.
  * The location of the server (whether by [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:i:ipaddr]] or [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:d:dns | Domain Name]]).
  * The [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:p:port]] on the [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:s: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.

Source: [[https://www.techopedia.com/definition/1352/uniform-resource-locator-url ]]


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