The global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web. The first part of the address indicates what protocol to use, and the second part specifies the IP address or the domain name where the resource is located. For example, http
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. URLs occur most commonly to reference web pages (HTTP/HTTPS) but are also used for file transfer (FTP), email (mailto), database access (JDBC), and many other applications.
| Uniform Resource Locator | |
| Abbreviation | URL |
|---|---|
| Status | Published |
| First published | 1994 |
| Latest version | Living Standard 2023 |
| Organization | Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) |
| Committee | Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) |
| Series | Request for Comments (RFC) |
| Editors | Anne van Kesteren |
| Authors | Tim Berners-Lee |
| Base standards | |
| Related standards | URI, URN |
| Domain | World Wide Web |
| License | CC BY 4.0 |
| Website | url |
Most web browsers display the URL of a web page above the page in an address bar. A typical URL could have the form http://www.example.com/index.html, which indicates a protocol (http), a hostname (www.example.com), and a file name (index.html).
