URL
From DocForge
URL stands for Uniform Resource Locater. When evaluated, a URL will provide a server, port, path, and other parameters that define a network location. A URL is a type of URI, or Uniform Resource Identifier.
The basic format of a URL:
<protocol>://<server>:<port><path>?<parameters>
Some parts of a URL are optional. Port is assumed to be the common port for the particular protocol if the colon and port number are omitted. Path is assumed to be the root path. Parameters can be empty with the question mark omitted.
At a minimum, a URL will contain:
<protocol>://<server>
For instance, the URL to DocForge's main page is http://docforge.com/, which expands to HyperTextTransferProtocol://docforge.com/, where the two // are indicative of a standard DNS lookup and the / indicates the root directory of the server (or the main page as Apache httpd serves it up). This can be also be expressed as http://docforge.com:80/.
