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How URLs work

How URLs work - HTML Tutorial

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How URLs work

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- Let's take a few minutes and talk about URL's, or Universal Resource Locators. We see these things and we use them every single day, and when you're talking about html, it's vital that you understand how to read them and use them to your advantage. Here is a typical URL. Let's break it down, step by step. At the beginning of the URL is the protocol identifier. This tells the browser what protocol or procedure to use for accessing a particular resource. Some of the common web protocols that you're likely to encounter include http, ftp, feed, and file. Next you have the host address, or the physical address on the internet, where this particular computer and program or services located. This is the more typical human readable version of the address, or the fully qualified domain name. Whereas, you could also write it as the actual IP address of the server, to break the host name down further, let's start at the end. This is the top level domain. These are the common .com .org .net…

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