CIS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Special Folder, Web Page, Hypertext Transfer Protocol

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

A url is the address of a web page. It is composed of several parts that help identify the type and location of each web document. The first part of the url indicates the set of rules (or the protocol) used to retrieve the specified document. The protocol is generally followed by a colon, two forward slashes, www (indicating world wide. Domain names consist of two parts: the host and the top- level domain (tld) At times, a forward slash and additional text follow the domain name. The information after the slash indicates a particular file or path (or subdirectory) within the website. The following is an example of a url. On you"ve reached a website, you can jump from the web page to another within the website or to another website altogether by clicking on specially coded text called hyper links. When programming html, the web page author can code any word or image to be a hyperlink.