| Even websites
have a place that they call home. The place a website lives in
cyberspace is called its address, also
known as a URL. It usually looks something
like this: http://www.yahoo.com/.
A URL (Uniform Resource Locator,
previously Universal Resource Locator) - usually pronounced by
sounding out each letter but, in some quarters, pronounced "Earl" -
is the unique address for a file that is accessible on the Internet.
A common way to get to a Web site is to enter the URL of its home
page file in your Web browser's address line. However, any file
within that Web site can also be specified with a URL. Such a file
might be any Web (HTML) page other than the home page, an image
file, or a program such as a common gateway interface application or
Java applet. The URL contains the name of the protocol to be used to
access the file resource, a domain name that identifies a specific
computer on the Internet, and a pathname, a hierarchical description
that specifies the location of a file in that computer. |
