Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
Format used by WWW documents to locate other files
Shows type of resource being accessed (e.g., http, ftp, telnet) and the path of file
Format used is:
- how://where/path/what
- scheme://host.domain/path/filename
- scheme is one of:
- http - a file on a World Wide Web server
- file - a file on your local system, or a file on an anonymous ftp server
- ftp - file transfer protocol
- telnet - used much less often that the above