URLaddress
URLaddress, often shortened to URL or web address, is a Uniform Resource Locator—a string that identifies a resource on the Internet and describes how to retrieve it. A URLaddress specifies both the location of the resource and the protocol used to access it, allowing a client such as a web browser to fetch the resource from a server.
A URLaddress is made of components: a scheme (or protocol) such as http or https, a host
URLs are a specific form of URI; a URI can be a location, a name, or both.
Use cases include absolute URLs that fully specify a location and relative URLs that resolve against a
History: URL concepts emerged with the early World Wide Web; Tim Berners‑Lee and colleagues developed the initial