02 May 2010 Posted in U Please help us keep this glossary of
Technical Terms up to date by sending us your criticism,
comments or suggestions. Meaning of URL – “Uniform Resource
Locator”, is a string of characters used to represent and
identify a page of information on the World Wide Web that is
used by an web browser such as Netscape or Internet Explorer to
find HTTP, FTP, telnet, gopher and other resources on the
Internet. The first part of the address lets you know what
protocol to use. If you were told to visit the URL
"ftp://ftp.download.com/readme.txt", you would be using the File
Transfer Protocol (FTP) to download the file "readme.txt" from a
remote computer. If the URL was "http://10.0.0.1/faq.html", you
would be using Hypertext Transfer Protocol to read the document
"faq.html" on the Web. The second part of the address specifies
the domain name or the IP address or the where the resource is
located. In the above example, FTP was used to retrieve a
document called "readme.txt" from a computer or serv