ABSTRACT
What is your URL? This seems to be a common, frequently asked question these days. What is being asked? It is your Internet address. A uniform resource locator (URL) is a file address that is accessible on the Internet. A resource can be an image file, an HTML page, or any other file that is supported by HTTP. A URL must contain three components. It must have the name of the protocol, which is the set of rules the computer follows in order to communicate with another computer. The URL lets the computer know how to process the information it receives. The URL must contain the domain name that identifies a specific computer on the Internet and a hierarchical description of a file location on that computer. A URL is then a type of URI, or uniform resource identifier. This represents a standardized way of specifying the addresses not only of Web pages, but files, newsgroups, and even e-mail users.
