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URL Full Form

URL Full Form

URL Full Form

What is the full form of URL?

The full form of URL is Uniform Resource Locator.

What does URL mean?

Uniform Resource Locator (URL), at times also named as Universal Resource Locator, is a subset of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies the address of a specific resource (web pages, graphics, videos, or other resources) on the internet.

URL is a specific character string which helps in accessing data from the internet. It defines the way of obtaining resource from World Wide Web.

It was created by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, and the URI working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 1994.

Each URL contains the following information. (See image for more clarity)

URL Example

Protocol name: the protocol (eg: http, ftp etc) to be used to fetch (or to allow electronic devices to communicate with each other) the resource.

A colon followed by double forward-slash (://)

Hostname (domain name) or IP address: the name of the server on the network (domain name).

A colon followed by port number (Optional)

File_name: the pathname to the file on the server.


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