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A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. [1]

34 relations: Address bar, Birds of a feather (computing), Clean URL, Computer network, CURIE, Directory (computing), Domain name, File Transfer Protocol, Filename, Fragment identifier, Hexadecimal, Hostname, HTTPS, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Internationalized domain name, Internationalized Resource Identifier, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, Internet Engineering Task Force, Java Database Connectivity, Mailto, Path (computing), Percent-encoding, Punycode, Slash (punctuation), Tim Berners-Lee, Typosquatting, Uniform Resource Identifier, URL normalization, UTF-8, Web browser, Web resource, WHATWG, World Wide Web, World Wide Web Consortium.

Address bar

In a web browser, the address bar (also location bar or URL bar) is a graphical control element that shows the current URL.

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Birds of a feather (computing)

In computing, BoF (birds of a feather) can refer to.

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Clean URL

Clean URLs, also sometimes referred to as RESTful URLs, user-friendly URLs, or search engine-friendly URLs, are Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) intended to improve the usability and accessibility of a website or web service by being immediately and intuitively meaningful to non-expert users.

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Computer network

A computer network, or data network, is a digital telecommunications network which allows nodes to share resources.

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CURIE

In computing, a CURIE (or Compact URI) defines a generic, abbreviated syntax for expressing Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs).

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Directory (computing)

In computing, a directory is a file system cataloging structure which contains references to other computer files, and possibly other directories.

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Domain name

A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet.

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File Transfer Protocol

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used for the transfer of computer files between a client and server on a computer network.

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Filename

A filename (also written as two words, file name) is a name used to uniquely identify a computer file stored in a file system.

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Fragment identifier

In computer hypertext, a fragment identifier is a short string of characters that refers to a resource that is subordinate to another, primary resource.

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Hexadecimal

In mathematics and computing, hexadecimal (also base, or hex) is a positional numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16.

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Hostname

In computer networking, a hostname (archaically nodename) is a label that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network and that is used to identify the device in various forms of electronic communication, such as the World Wide Web.

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HTTPS

HTTP Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet.

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Hypertext Transfer Protocol

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, and hypermedia information systems.

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Internationalized domain name

An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label that is displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in a language-specific script or alphabet, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Tamil, Hebrew or the Latin alphabet-based characters with diacritics or ligatures, such as French.

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Internationalized Resource Identifier

The Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI) – is an internet protocol standard which extends ASCII characters subset of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) protocol.

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Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a function of ICANN, a nonprofit private American corporation that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Internet Protocol-related symbols and Internet numbers.

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Internet Engineering Task Force

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards, in particular the standards that comprise the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP).

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Java Database Connectivity

Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) is an application programming interface (API) for the programming language Java, which defines how a client may access a database.

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Mailto

mailto is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme for email addresses.

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Path (computing)

A path, the general form of the name of a file or directory, specifies a unique location in a file system.

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Percent-encoding

Percent-encoding, also known as URL encoding, is a mechanism for encoding information in a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) under certain circumstances.

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Punycode

Punycode is a representation of Unicode with the limited ASCII character subset used for Internet host names.

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Slash (punctuation)

The slash is an oblique slanting line punctuation mark.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English engineer and computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.

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Typosquatting

Typosquatting, also called URL hijacking, a sting site, or a fake URL, is a form of cybersquatting, and possibly brandjacking which relies on mistakes such as typos made by Internet users when inputting a website address into a web browser.

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Uniform Resource Identifier

A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a string of characters designed for unambiguous identification of resources and extensibility via the URI scheme.

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URL normalization

URL normalization is the process by which URLs are modified and standardized in a consistent manner.

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UTF-8

UTF-8 is a variable width character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid code points in Unicode using one to four 8-bit bytes.

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Web browser

A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for accessing information on the World Wide Web.

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Web resource

The concept of a web resource is primitive in the web architecture, and is used in the definition of its fundamental elements.

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WHATWG

The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) is a community of people interested in evolving HTML and related technologies.

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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and accessible via the Internet.

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World Wide Web Consortium

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL

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