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/100/04wi/index.htm
protocol
= http://
Web server
= www
domain
= .cs.washington.edu
path
= /education/courses/100/04wi/
directories (folders)
file
= index
file extension
= .htm
hypertext markup language