| URL (Uniform Resource Locator)A URL is the address of a resource which is retrievable using Protocols already deployed on the Internet. A URL defines an access Protocol, called a "scheme", and a "scheme-dependent part", which has to provide sufficient information to locate an object using the specified scheme. In case of HTTP URLs, the scheme is "http", and the scheme-dependent part specifies the name of the HTTP Server as well as the path of the object on the HTTP Server. Even though the term URL is still in widespread use, officially there is no valid specification for it (and it is unlikely that the term will ever be revived). It has been replaced by the more general term URI, which is the technically correct term for resource identification as used on the WWW. Type Associations- Topic(s) from which this Topic is derived:
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Mentioned in...URI · URN · Usenet News Bibliographic References- Michael Mealling, Ray Denenberg, Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs), URLs, and Uniform Resource Names (URNs): Clarifications and Recommendations, Internet RFC 3305, August 2002 [0.9]
- Anthony B. Coates, Dan Connolly, Diana Dack, Leslie L. Daigle, Ray Denenberg, Martin J. Dürst, Paul Grosso, Sandro Hawke, Renato Iannella, Graham Klyne, Larry Masinter, Michael Mealling, Mark Needleman, Norman Walsh, URIs, URLs, and URNs: Clarifications and Recommendations 1.0, World Wide Web Consortium, Note NOTE-uri-clarification-20010921, September 2001 [0.9]
- Rich Petke, Ian King, Registration Procedures for URL Scheme Names, Internet RFC 2717, November 1999 [0.9]
- Larry Masinter, Harald Tveit Alvestrand, Dan Zigmond, Rich Petke, Guidelines for new URL Schemes, Internet RFC 2718, November 1999 [0.9]
- Edward Levinson, Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators, Internet RFC 2111, March 1997 [0.9]
- Ray Denenberg, John A. Kunze, Denis Lynch, Uniform Resource Locators for Z39.50, Internet RFC 2056, November 1996 [0.9]
- Orit Levin, H.323 Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Scheme Registration, Internet RFC 3508, April 2003 [0.8]
- Robert Herriot, Ira McDonald, Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: IPP URL Scheme, Internet RFC 3510, April 2003 [0.8]
- Randall Gellens, POP URL Scheme, Internet RFC 2384, August 1998 [0.8]
- Larry Masinter, The "data" URL scheme, Internet RFC 2397, August 1998 [0.8]
- Paul E. Hoffman, Larry Masinter, Jamie Zawinski, The mailto URL scheme, Internet RFC 2368, June 1998 [0.8]
- Tim Howes, Mark Smith, The LDAP URL Format, Internet RFC 2255, December 1997 [0.8]
- Chris Newman, IMAP URL scheme, Internet RFC 2192, September 1997 [0.8]
- Tim Howes, Mark Smith, An LDAP URL Format, Internet RFC 1959, June 1996 [0.8]
- Antti Vähä-Sipilä, URLs for Telephone Calls, Internet RFC 2806, April 2000 [0.7]
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