https://DevOpsCloud.io -- Cloud Monk Losang Jinpa, Ph.D., MCSE/MCT, GitOps DevOps Engineer

Return to Golang url, DNS, Web, HTTP, HTTPS, HTML, web page

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) ¹⁾ although many people use the two terms interchangeably. A URL implies the means to access an indicated resource and is denoted by a web protocol or an access mechanism, which is not true of every URI. Thus

https://www.DevOpsCloud.io

is a URL, while

www.DevOpsCloud

is not. URLs occur most commonly to reference web pages (http), but are also used for file transfer (ftp), email (mailto), database access (JDBC), and many other applications.