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[01/12/2009] URL
In computing, a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is subset of URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) which specifies where identified resources are available and means for retrieving it. In many technical notes, verbal discussions it is often used as a URI's synonym. It was created as part of URI by Tim Berners-Lee in 1994.Each and every URL is a combination of the followings: scheme name(protocol), colon and then depending on scheme, hostname(IP address), port number and the path of the file to retrieved or a program, CGI scripts or query string and an optional anchor for displaying the starting of page.
Syntax of an URL looks like:
resource_type://_username:passw0rd@d0main:p0rt/filepath?query_string#anch0r
There are two types of URL:
a) Absolute
b) Relative
