URLs, Uniform Resource Locators

References:

Sample URLs

A reference to a server's root directory is very simple:
http://www.oac.uci.edu/
Here is a citation of a document provided by that server:
http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/franklin/ht/disclaimer.html
One can also refer to a Unix home directory:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ics1c/
The primary links to documents, searchable indices, interactive images, and forms all have the same syntax.

Other protocols are handled by web browsers:
gopher://gopher.cwis.uci.edu/
ftp://ftp.uci.edu/
telnet://library@antpac.lib.uci.edu
Note that this telnet reference includes both the system and the login name on the system. Not all WWW clients (browsers) know how to use the login name.

There is syntax for a location within an large document:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/WWWdocs/localFAQ.html#Acronyms
or a position within an interactive image:
http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/map?121,95
or a keyword in a searchable index:
http://phwww.cwis.uci.edu/cgi-bin/phwww?wilkening

Relative references give a URL in terms of where the reference is in relation to the document currently being viewed. For example,
just "/" indicates the root directory of the server on which this document is located,
#other indicates the anchor ``other'' in this document, and
skeleton.html indicates the document ``skeleton.html'' located in the same directory as this document.


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Current as of 6 July 1995
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