The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) contains unique information about the server and the path on the server to find and retrieve the information that you are requesting.
The address (or URL) for this page contains the following information:
It is important to read the URL's of the pages that you are visiting. When you look at the URL you can often speculate on the validity of the source. Lets say that you were looking for the latest service pack for NT and you can't find it. You quick searched the web for it and these two URL's came up after you entered your search criteria. Again, if you were looking for an upgrade to fix a bug in NT - which would you download. Of the following two (made up) links - which would you tend to trust as the actual site for the patch.
http://www.hacker_patch.com/virus/office/goodone/destroy/servicepack1.exe You should also know that a tilde ( ~ ) in a URL refers to a users account. A users account usually is less strict regarding the content.
Other protocols include the following:
Question: I asked someone for a web address (URL) and they kept saying slash and dot all the time
Not to be confused with the backslash (\) Dot just means . (period) Question: How can I find information on a certain company?
For instance: Sometimes companies were a little late registering their name and get stuck with some derivative of their name. ATI makes great video cards but ATI was already taken by Announcement Technologies, Inc. so ATI's web address is really http://www.atitech.com. (I think ATI recently purchased the ATI domain name.) Question: What does the .com mean?
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