Parts of a URL (primer)

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URL Parts

URL addresses have 2 basic parts: (1) a portion specifying the method of file access, and (2) a portion specifying the Internet location of the file to be accessed. For example, in the URL address
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Welcome.html
the file being accessed is called Welcome.html, and it resides in a directory (folder) called WH, on a machine with IP address www.whitehouse.gov, that is supplying the file with a server running the http protocol. The following figure summarizes the parts of a URL.

A more complete discussion of URL addresses may be found at the address http://www.december.com/html/, but what you have learned above should be sufficient for most uses of the Web.


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		URL Parts URL addresses have 2 basic parts: (1) a portion specifying the method of file access, and (2) a portion specifying the Internet location of the file to be accessed. For example, in the URL address http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Welcome.html the file being accessed is called Welcome.html, and it resides in a directory (folder) called WH, on a machine with IP address `www.whitehouse.gov`, that is supplying the file with a server running the http protocol. The following figure summarizes the parts of a URL. A more complete discussion of URL addresses may be found at the address http://www.december.com/html/, but what you have learned above should be sufficient for most uses of the Web.