Every document on the World Wide Web has its own, unique URL (or Uniform Resource Locator). A URL is a text string containing addressing information and, optionally, application information. To access the server you are currently using, you supplied a URL to your Web client.
The format of URLs depends to some extent on the communication protocol they access. DynaWeb servers use the HTTP protocol and HTTP URL syntax:
http://host-name[:port][/document-path][?application-information] |
Where:
| host-name (host name) |
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| port | If a server uses a port number other than 80 (the http default port number), a port number is necessary. The port number is preceded by a colon (:); for example:
You do not need to state port 80 if it is used. | |||
| document-path | A document path identifies the directory and, sometimes, the filename of a specific document; for example:
Note that the directory of a homepage is often implicit; for example, the URL of the EBT homepage is:
Even though the homepage address is not supplied, the homepage is still displa | |||
| application-information |
A DynaWeb server uses the application information segment of a URL, as needed, to pass the current settings of configuration parameters (whose names begin with the characters, DWEB_). You can ignore this application information. |