What is the full form of URL

What is the full form of URL

URL: Uniform Resource Locator

URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It is the resource address on the internet. The URL created by Tim Berners-Leethe, inventor of the World Wide Web, and the URI working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), as an outcome of collaboration started at the IETF Living Documents birds of a feather session in 1992. URL is the character string (address) which is used to access data from the internet. The URL is the type of URI (Uniform Resource Identifier).

Every URL contains the following information:

  • Protocol name
  • A colon followed by double forward-slash (://)
  • Hostname (domain name) or IP address
  • A colon followed by port number
  • Path of the file

Syntax of URL:

protocol://hostname/filename

  • Protocol: A protocol is the standard set of rules that are used to allow electronic devices to communicate with each other.
  • Hostname: It describes the name of the server on the network.
  • Filename: It describes the pathname to the file on the server.

The URL https://www.lyfin360.com/full-form contains the information protocol: https, hostname: www.lyfin360.com and filename: full-form.

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