Meaning of url (what is it, concept and definition)

What is URL:

URL is the acronym for Uniform Resource Locator , which in Spanish stands for Uniform Resource Locator.

As such, the URL is the specific address assigned to each of the resources available on the network so that they can be located or identified. Thus, there is a URL for each of the resources (pages, sites, documents, files, folders) on the World Wide Web .

The URL was created by Tim Berners-Lee and was used for the first time in 1991. However, from 1994, the concept of URI ( Uniform Resource Identifier ), which in Spanish means Uniform Resource Identifier, absorbed that of URL, due to that the former was more general. However, URL is still the most common designation outside of specialized domains.

The URL is used to find a resource on the Internet. For example, if you want to search for an article on our page 'significados.com' you know that the URL that will take you to it is https://www.significados.com. This address is made up of:

• 'https: //' which would be the access protocol for internet pages. Another example is the 'ftp: //' which is the protocol for downloading files. 'www' which is the address of the resource. '.meaning' would be the domain name and '.com' is the domain type. These can be generic like.net,.org,.mobi or territorial like.mx,.ar,.cl. Today the domain type is diversifying, possibly containing complete phrases like.google or.maps.

The hiperligaciones or links are words that have a URL attached to it and its symbol is the union of two links in a chain. For example you may want to know about the HTML meaning by clicking on the hyperlink here.

On the other hand, URL is also the acronym for the Rafael Landívar University, in Guatemala, and the Ramón Llull University, in Barcelona, ​​Spain.

URL and what is it for

The URL is used so that we can find what we are looking for on the net: a page, a site, a file, a document, etc. In this sense, the URL enables an information resource to be found by our internet browser, and it decodes it and shows it to us in the appropriate way.

Hence, the URL contains various information: the name of the computer that provides the information, the directory in which it is located, the name of the file, as well as the protocol that we must use to retrieve the data.

URL and its characteristics

The URL is a simple address that combines four fundamental pieces of information: the protocol (for example, HTTP or HTTPS), the server or host with which the communication is established, the network port on the server to connect to and, finally, the path to the resource or file that you are trying to access on the server. For example: