| Lesson
1 What's
a URL?
An Internet address is more
technically known as a URL which stands for
uniform
resource locator. The outline of a URL looks
like this:
protocol://host/path/filename
An example of a real URL is:
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html
protocol
= http
host computer = scriptorium.lib.duke.edu
directory or path = women
filename = cwdocs.html
The title of this site is:
Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the
Internet. Could you see some clues of
this in the URL? |
Other possible protocols on the
Internet include: telnet, ftp, etc. but we will be
concentrating on http (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol),
the protocol for the
World Wide Web.
Think of the host computer as
the community in which the web page
lives,
the directory, path, or folder as the house
in which it dwells, and the filename as a person
living in that house.
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