Tuesday, March 08, 2011

URL Previous Terms-of-the-Day Term of the Day XML/RSS feed Term of the Day Google Gadget    Term of the Day on Twitter Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator, the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web. The first part of the address is called a protocol identifier and it indicates what protocol to use, and the second part is called a resource name and it specifies the IP address or the domain name where the resource is located. The protocol identifier and the resource name are separated by a colon and two forward slashes. For example, the two URLs below point to two different files at the domain pcwebopedia.com. The first specifies an executable file that should be fetched using the FTP protocol; the second specifies a Web page that should be fetched using the HTTP protocol: ftp://www.pcwebopedia.com/stuff.exe http://www.pcwebopedia.com/index.html See "Countries and Their Domain Extensions" in the Quick Reference section of Webopedia. See also "How Web Servers Work" in the "Did You Know...?" section of Webopedia. Also see "Web Server Error Messages" in the Quick Reference section of Webopedia. Document addressing - uniform resource term information Internet Standards document on URLs Webopedia's "Did You Know...?" Section Webopedia's "Did You Know...All About Web Site Hosting" Webopedia's Quick Reference Section Webopedia's Did You Know... All About Web Browsers Web Search Engines & Directories Webopedia Quick Reference: Countries and Their Domain Extensions Webopedia is on Facebook, Let's connect!  Webopedia is on Facebook, are you? Let's connect! Join more than 2,100 Webopedia fans on Facebook and interact with the site's editors, post messages on the "Webopedia Wall," plus add comments on term definitions, articles, discuss technology and even suggest topics for inclusion in Webopedia.

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