What is URL?
A URL (Uniform Resource Locator), as the name suggests, provides a way to locate a resource on the web, the hypertext system that operates over the internet. The URL contains the name of the protocol to be used to access the resource and a resource name. The first part of a URL identifies what protocol to use. The second part identifies the IP address or domain name where the resource is located.A URL is the most common type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). URIs are strings of characters used to identify a resource over a network. URL protocols include HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and HTTPS (HTTP Secure) for web resources, "mail to" for email addresses, "ftp" for files on a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server, and telnet for a session to access remote computers. All URLs are presented in the following order: Scheme name Colon and two slashes Location of the server The port (optional) and the location of the resource on the server Fragme...