URL - Uniform Resource Locator

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URL - Uniform Resource Locator

A URL is a reference to a resources on the internet by location, e.g. a web address.

Each URL is a type of URI - Uniform Resource Identifier.

There are different URL schemes. Each URL begins with a scheme follwed by a colon.

Some examples of schemes are:

http:
https:
ftp:
mailto:
ldap:

and so on.

Most URL subsets conform to a specific syntax as follows:

scheme://authority/path?query#fragment

e.g.:

http://www.domain.com/page.php?id=32#anchor

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