Universal Resource Locator

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Core part of the specification of the web. URLs name locations of resources online. The "names" used by the HTTP protocol to request and transmit documents/resources on the web.

Closely related to:

URI: Universal Resource Identifier,

URN: Universal Resource Name

RFC3986 SyntaxDiagram.png

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986