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This page contains some WWW related info.

Uniform Resource Locator

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) refers to the format used by WWW documents to locate other files. A URL gives the type of resource being accessed (e.g., go pher, WAIS) and the path of the file. The format used is:

scheme://host.domain[:port]/path/filename

where scheme is one of:

file

a file on your local system, or a file on an anonymous ftp server

http

a file on a World Wide Web server

gopher

a file on a Gopher server

WAIS

a file on a WAIS server

The scheme can also be news or telnet, but these are used much less often than the above. The port number can generally be omitted from the URL.

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