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URL

Category:F5 -> Basic Definitions

URL - Uniform Resource Locator which a formatted text string used by Web browsers, email clients and other software to identify a network resource.

URL consists of three parts:

  1. Network Protocol
  2. Host Name/Address
  3. File or Resource location

Example:

protocol://host/location 

Typical URL protocols:

  • http://
  • ftp://
  • mailto://

Absolute URL - full URL featuring all three substrings.

Relative URL - used within web pages and a few other programs and can contain only one location element.

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