A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) more commonly known as a web address is a structured reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and how to retrieve it. A typical URL could have the form https://www.example.com/index.html, which indicates a protocol (https), a hostname (www.example.com), and a file name (index.html).
A Uniform Resource Locator is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).
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