What is a URL (Uniform Resource Locator)?

Every HTML document has a uniform resource locator, or URL, typically of this form:

  http://host.domain/path/filename

where the host.domain identifies the system and the path and file specify the file.

Your browser will always display the URL of the document you are currently viewing. In Netscape, the URL appears in the window labeled ``Location:''.

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