Url

Squaggleboggin · 03-26-2004, 07:34 PM

What exactly is a URL? How is it used? What is its purpose? Thanks guys.

mobo · 03-28-2004, 07:05 AM

Its like an address for a website, similar to the one on your home or your phone number. How important is it..Well your can't have a website without one for starters.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/URL.html

Apokalipse · 03-29-2004, 07:43 AM

this is a url:
http://www.tech-forums.net
and this is a url:
http://www.google.com

when you type in a url it sends it to a server called a domain name server or DNS. this DNS gives you the IP address of the site you wish to go to.
an IP address is the address of a computer on the internet or a network, and you're not connected without one.
an IP address looks like this:
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where the x's are the numbers
an 'octel' is a set of numbers separated by dots and does not exceed 255

nemesis2004 · 04-04-2004, 12:42 PM

Universal Resource Locator (i think)

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mobo True Techie Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 221	Its like an address for a website, similar to the one on your home or your phone number. How important is it..Well your can't have a website without one for starters. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/URL.html __________________ Security Tools \| Spyware Scan \| Prevention 101

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Apokalipse Multicellular Eukaryote Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 12,763	this is a url: http://www.tech-forums.net and this is a url: http://www.google.com when you type in a url it sends it to a server called a domain name server or DNS. this DNS gives you the IP address of the site you wish to go to. an IP address is the address of a computer on the internet or a network, and you're not connected without one. an IP address looks like this: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where the x's are the numbers an 'octel' is a set of numbers separated by dots and does not exceed 255 __________________ 1 + 1 = 3 if you define 3 as a result of 1 + 1

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04-04-2004, 12:42 PM	#4 (permalink)
nemesis2004 Newb Techie Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 25	Universal Resource Locator (i think)