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URL Full Form Overview
URL Full Form is explained here in this article. Before coming to URL full form. I would like to explain about need of url and web browsing. We use web browsers to access information in websites.
There are various browsers available, e.g. Mozilla, Chrome, Internet Explorer etc.
There is a URL for every website we want to visit. We type the URL in the web browser and it goes to another machine called server. The server responds to the user computer with the particular page that was requested through the URL.
Frequently Asked Questions
Some frequently asked questions based on URL are as follow –
- What does URL mean ?
- What is URL example ?
- What is URL and It’s Use?
- How do I connect to URL?
- Is URL a web address ?
- How do I find a URL?
After reading this tutorial students can answer the frequently asked questions as listed above.
URL Full Form
- URL Full form is UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR.
- Another name of URL is web address.
- URL allows a browser to find a specific webpage or file across the internet.
Let’s try to understand various elements of an URL with an example.
Here https://www.youtube.com/index.html is an example of URL.
Here http stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
www stands for world wide web. youtube.com is a domain name. .com is an extension. Html stands for Hypertext markup language.
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
It can be called as a rule/ language of communication between user and server (client and server) for request and response. Here the client requests and the server responds.
What is World Wide Web ?
world wide web is inherited from the early days of the internet when more than one network of linked computers was available. Most browsers add this prefix by default.
What is Domain Name ?
Domain Name is a unique name that is registered to one owner and points to the root directory on a website’s host computer.
Hyper Text Markup Language
It is a markup language and decides the look of a web page.
Example Code and implementation of HTML
Conclusion and Summary
URL full form and related aspects are discussed here in this tutorial. I hope this tutorial will be beneficial for students in understanding the concepts of URL and domain name.
Note – Students can read more about Domain Name
