Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)

Scheme Port Number Query

http://www.company.com:81/a/b/c.html?user=Alice&year=2008#p2

Host Name

Hierarchical portion

Fragment

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<a> Examples
Full URL:
<a href="http://www.xyz.com/news/2009.html">2009 News</a>

Relative location:
<a href="2008/March.html"> same as http://www.xyz.com/news/2008/March.html

Absolute location in same site:

<a href="/stock/quote.html"> same as http://www.xyz.com/stock/quote.html

New location, same page:

<a href="#sec3">

Anchor definition:
<a name="sec3">...</a>

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