Uniform Resource Locator(URL) URL strings consist of three parts Network protocol Host name or address File or resource location These substrings are separated by special characters as follows: protocol :// host / location URL Protocol The 'protocol' substring defines a network protocol to be used to access a resource. These strings are short names followed by the three characters '://' (a simple naming convention to denote a protocol definition). Typical URL protocols include http://, ftp://, and mailto://. Now check out the URL of this page (the one that is displayed in the address(navigation) bar).What does that say ?What we are going to discuss is HTTP and HTTPS which have a role to play in our follow up post... HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol Used by browsers for fetching Web data from servers. Because of its universal availability (e.g., firewalls don't interfere) has become widely used as a general-purpose protocol for network communication. Simple
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