A URL, short for "Uniform Resource Locator", is a way to unambiguously identify the location of a resource on the Internet. Some typical URLs look like:
http://www.javasoft.com/ http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Chumbawamba&btnG=Google+Search file:///Macintosh%20HD/Java/Docs/JDK%201.1.1%20docs/api/java.net.InetAddress.html#_top_ http://www.macintouch.com:80/newsrecent.shtml ftp://ftp.info.apple.com/pub/ mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu telnet://utopia.poly.edu
Most URLs can be broken into about five pieces, not all of which are necessarily present in any given URL. These are:
How do the above URLs split?