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You enter the URL of a site or web page by typing it into the Address bar of your web browser.
Browsers can store the URLs that you want to revisit by adding them
to a special list. Netscape Navigator and Firefox call them Bookmarks; Microsoft
Explorer calls them Favorites. Once you add a URL to your list, you
return to that web page simply by clicking on the name on the list, instead
of retyping the entire URL.
Most of the URLs you will use start with http, which stands for
Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the method by which HTML
files are transferred over the Web. Here are few other things to know
about URLs:
- A URL usually has no spaces.
- A URL always uses forward slashes (//).
- URLs aren't case sensitive. So typing "http://www.learnthenet.com" or "HTTP://WWW.LEARNTHENET.COM" or any variation of upper and lower case letters takes you to the same page.
- If you type a URL incorrectly, your browser will not be able to locate the site or resource you want. Should you get an error message or access the wrong site, make sure you spelled the address correctly.
- You can find the URL behind any link by placing your cursor over the link. The pointer turns into a hand and the URL appears in your browser's status bar, usually located at the bottom of your browser window.
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Place your cursor over this link. The URL of this page will appear in the status bar below.
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To learn more about URLs, read the World Wide Web Consortium's Fact
Sheet on URLs.
Last update: Jan 4, 2008
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