Question

What is a URL ? or What do you mean by URL?

Answer 1

Url means address of webpage... like we people have address of our house

Answer 2

ANSWER -

URL - It stands for $\textit{Uniform \:Resource }$$\textit{Locator.}$ It is the unique address of a web page on internet.

${ \tt{URLs\:look\:like\:this:}}$

• $\large\mathtt\red{type://}$ $\large\mathtt\blue{address/}$ $\large\mathtt\green{path}$

where,

$\longrightarrow$$\small\mathtt\red{type:}$ specifies the type of server in which the file is located.

$\longrightarrow$$\small\mathtt\blue{address}$ is the address of server, and

$\longrightarrow$$\small\mathtt\green{path}$ tells the location of file on the server.

For example -

$\underbrace\gray{http://}_{type \:of\:server}$ $\overbrace\gray{encycle.msn.com/}^{address\:of\:server}$ $\underbrace\gray{styles.asp}_{path \:of\:file.asp}$

${\bold { \underline{\large{Elements\:of\:a\:URL- }}}}$

• The type of server or protocol

• The name/address of the server on the internet.

• The location of the file on the server (location may be rated as "path" through the file Hierarchy)