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- <H1>Uniform Resource Locator (URL)</H1>
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- A URL (or uniform resource locator) is the address of a file on the
- Internet. It usually takes this form:
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- <P><I>protocol://machine.name[:port]/directory/file.name</I>
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- <P>The <I>protocol</I> is the Internet protocol used to transmit the
- file. When accessing a WWW server, the protocol is typically
- <I>http</I>, but other protocols are supported (ftp, gopher, news, and
- file). The <I>machine name</I> is the domain name of the server where
- the file is stored (such as www.company.com). The <I>:port</I> part of
- the address is only required when a non-standard TCP port number is
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- <P><A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/demoweb/url-primer.html">More about URLs</A>
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