What is a URL?

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https://www.google.com/search?q=url&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS750US750&oq=url&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3j69i60l2.695j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

(note: everything after HTTPS: is the URL by the way) for this set of articles.

URL

ˌyo͞o ˌär ˈel/

noun

1. the address of a World Wide Web page.

   "type a URL into a browser's address bar"

   synonyms:

   address, IP address, link, alias "this one catalog company has several URLs"

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URL - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), although many people use the two terms interchangeably.

‎URL redirection · ‎URL normalization · ‎URL (disambiguation) · ‎Semantic URL

What Is a URL? (The Java™ Tutorials > Custom Networking > Working ...

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/networking/urls/definition.html

URL is an acronym for Uniform Resource Locator and is a reference (an address) to a resource on the Internet. A URL has two main components: Protocol identifier: For the URL http://example.com , the protocol identifier is http . Resource name: For the URL http://example.com , the resource name is example.com .