What is the full form of URL

URL: Uniform Resource Locator

URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It is the address of a resource, which can be a specific webpage or a file, on the internet. It is also known as web address when it is used with http. It was created in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee. URL is a specific character string that is used to access data from the World Wide Web. It is a type of URI (Uniform Resource Identifier).

Every URL contains the following information:

The scheme name or protocol.
A colon, two slashes.
A host, normally called a domain name but sometimes as a literal IP address.
A colon followed by a port number.
Full path of the resource.

The URL of a web page is displayed above on the page in the address bar. A typical URL looks like this:

http://www.javatpoint.com/full-form

The above URL contains:

protocol: http
host or domain: www.javatpoint.com
Path of the resource: /full-form

A URL can be entered manually by typing it in the address bar of your web browser. If the URL does not contain a valid server, a browser may display a "Server not found" error and if the path in the URL is incorrect, the browser may display a "404 error". A URL does not contain spaces and uses forward slashes to represent different directories. So, dashes and underscores are used separate the words of a web address. URL full form

What is URI

URI stands for Uniform Resource Identifier. It is a generic term for all the name and addresses which show objects on the World Wide Web. It is generally a sequence of characters which identifies a logical resource or the name and location of a file or resource in a uniform format.

A URI can be of two types: Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and Uniform Resource Names (URNs). It enables resources to be accessed by other computers across a network or over the World Wide Web.

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