FIT100: Fluency with Information Technology

FIT100

Dissecting a URL

Web addresses are URLs, uniform resource locator, an IP address+path

•URLs are often redirected to other places; e.g. http://www.cs.washington.edu/100/ goes to

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/100/03wi/index.htm

protocol = http://

Web server = www

domain = .cs.washington.edu

path = /education/courses/100/03wi/ directories (folders)

file = index

file extension = .htm hypertext markup language