What is a URL or web address? - Ryzen Hunt
URL- introduction
As some of you were asking us about URL, So this post is especially for you all my friends.
Before thinking of the behind the scenes code of any webpage, we should go over the web address. Formally, the website address value is known as a URL, which stands for Uniform Resource Locator. Here is one example of URL for the above-given webpage:
https://devtools.glitch.me/network/getstarted.html
The http refers to the hypertext transfer protocol, where a protocol is a set of rules and formats for exchanging messages between computers. After http comes a delimiter, ://, and then the name of the web server computer that stores the web page. For this example, the web server computer is devtools.
Next comes the domain that describes how the webserver can be found on the Internet. For this example, the domain is glitch.me. Next, there’s a sequence of directories and subdirectories that indicate where the web page is stored on the web server computer. That’s called the path. For this example, the path is network. In the example, after the network directory, there’s a / and then weather.html. The phrase weather.html is the web page’s filename, and the / is a delimiter.
The ~ (tilde) at the left side of a directory indicates that the directory is a home directory for a user’s account. There’s no requirement that you use a ~ for a user’s home directory. It’s a standard convention at universities, where users (students and teachers) like to do their own thing, but most businesses do not
use ~’s. In the below given example, the ~jdean240 is the home directory.
http://teach.park.edu/~jdean240/lecture/weather.html
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