A URL provides a general –purpose-naming scheme for specifying Internet resources using a string of printable ASCII characters. A typical U...
A URL provides a general –purpose-naming scheme for specifying Internet resources using a string of printable ASCII characters. A typical URL consists of four parts:
- The Protocol scheme tells the web browser which Internet protocol to use when accessing a resource on a server. In addition to HTTP, URL supports all major Internet protocols including FTP,Gopher etc. HTTP is the Web’s native protocol; it points to webpages and server programs.
- The server name is usually an Internet host domain name that identifies the site on which the server is running.
- The port Number identifies a program that runs on a particular server.You explicitly specify a port number after a server name using a colon(:) as the separator. If you do not specify a port number the browser will direct the well-known port HTTP. The port number is 80.
- The path to target resources starts with the forward slash after the host and port number.
