URL basics
Uniform Resource Locator - URL defined in RFC1738.
An URL is the standard way of addressing resources on
An URL consists of 4 main parts :
- protocol, host, port, file.
URL Usage : protocol://host:port/file
e.g. : http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk:80/~azt/index.html
Supported standard protocols in 1.1 are: http, ftp, news,