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<h4>Uniform Resource Locator:</h4>
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 URLs are filer addresses on the internet. Because the internet is stored on many <a href="ISP">Service Providers</a>' computers, across many countries, URLs have to be global. Also, because most <a href="ISP">Service Providers</a> are based on UNIX systems, the filenaming is UNIX compatable.
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 The standard format of a URL is:
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<tt>protocol://site:port/filepath</tt>
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 <tt>Protocol</tt> indicates which file transfer system is being used and for what purpose.
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 <tt>Site</tt> is the address of the <a href="ISP">Service Provider</a> on which the files are found. Each different protocol is handled through a different channel of input to the system. If you wish to use a different <tt>port</tt> than the one that is standard for your chosen protocol, the port number must be specified.
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 <tt>Filepath</tt> indicates the location on the <a href="ISP">Service Provider</a>'s hard drive where the file is to be found. This is like any local address, but is handled as a UNIX-format path, where <tt>/</tt> is the directory seperator and <tt>..</tt> is one level down the directory tree. Filenames are case-sensitive and use <tt>.</tt>-style file extensions.
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