Alan Skorkin has written a wonderful piece entitled What Every Developer Should Know About URLs. It’s a very long, detailed post, but if you have to work with URLs you should give it a read.
To most of us, a URL is a pretty straightforward thing. They usually look like http://www.something.com, but you’ll likely have noticed that there is a great deal of additional complexity that is added into URLs depending where you are on the web. The real structure of a URL, as Alan points out, looks like this:
<scheme>://<username>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<path>;<parameters>?<query>#<fragment>
That’s just the tip of iceberg though. If you go and read his article, you’ll find that he’s covered this topic in depth and you’ll come out of it with a much better understanding or the makeup of a URL and what mistaken assumptions you may have.
Colombo // May 6, 2010 at 2:01 am
You know what this is actually pretty interesting. I don’t know much about this stuff, but I always thought that URLs can not look so “user friendly” as they do when we see them on our browsers.
John // May 10, 2010 at 5:13 am
Very technical info in that article, i was expecting to read something regarding ” how to ” include url’s in your web site in order to get maximum search engine impact.
Giresun haber // May 10, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Very nice
jim // May 12, 2010 at 4:42 am
Nice post. I have been reading a lot of books on URLs and programming that i bought from a garage sale. these things really interest me as a techy. will check on your links too! Thanks!
jones@web design surrey // May 13, 2010 at 11:41 am
the URL for me just was an address because by our profession we use to think this much only but now the post which you recommended to read gave us very interesting info!
Full Color Printing Flyers // May 14, 2010 at 1:17 am
Very interesting info indeed on URL structure. Now I know that there’s a great deal of additional complexity added into URLs depending on the website. Thanks!
ds1052e // May 15, 2010 at 6:00 am
hi.very interesting info indeed on URL structure.NOW I kown that there’s a great deal of additional complexity added into URLs depending on the website.
Chistopher@anatomy chart // May 15, 2010 at 12:47 pm
sorry i typed that url by mistake ! i was not expecting that URL to work like an actual URL please edit that if you can. thanks
Erotik Hikaye // May 15, 2010 at 3:25 pm
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Marc // May 16, 2010 at 8:11 pm
I make a few dollars off of a few web properties, but not very much.
Abhishek // May 18, 2010 at 7:25 am
Nice blog and informative too impressed.