URL+-+Uniform+Resource+Locater



http://www.example.com/something.html
 * The easiest way to explain a URL such as this one:

Is to think of it as HOW, then WHERE and finally WHAT**


 * **http://** || **« how?** || **The method we are going to use to retrieve or "get to" the document described by the URL. Common ones are "http" (Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol), you may also see "ftp://" or "mailto:"** ||
 * **www.example.com** || **« where?** || **This is the hostname of the server, somewhere on the internet, which is holding the document we actually want** ||
 * **/something.html** || **« what?** || **Finally, after we know what server we are looking for and how we're going to retrieve the document from it, we now specify exactly //which document//** we want off of the remote server. ||

Understand those three components and you basically have URLs down cold.

from: @http://www.privateworld.com/archives/188-How-to-explain-URLs-so-anybody-can-understand-them.html