The World Wide Web

Uniform Resource Locators, or URLs

A Uniform Resource Locator, or URL is the address of a document found on the WWW. Browser interprets the information in the URL in order to connect to the proper Internet server and to retrieve your desired document. Each time a click on a hyperlink in a WWW document instructs browser to find the URL that's embedded within the hyperlink. The elements in a URL: Protocol://server's address/filename