A uniform resource locator (URL), colloquially known as an address on the Web, is a reference to a resource that specifies its location on a computer...
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URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the...
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URL redirection, also called URL forwarding, is a World Wide Web technique for making a web page available under more than one URL address. When a web...
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TinyURL is a URL shortening web service, which provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service...
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URLs (also known as user-friendly URLs, pretty URLs, search engine-friendly URLs or RESTful URLs) are web addresses or Uniform Resource Locator (URLs)...
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A URL is a uniform resource locator for a Web resource. URL may also refer to: .url, file extension for Internet shortcut files URL redirection Ultimate...
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Percent-encoding (redirect from URL Encoding)
URL encoding, officially known as percent-encoding, is a method to encode arbitrary data in a uniform resource identifier (URI) using only the US-ASCII...
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Query string (redirect from URL query)
uniform resource locator (URL) that assigns values to specified parameters. A query string commonly includes fields added to a base URL by a Web browser or...
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An OpenURL is similar to a web address, but instead of referring to a physical website, it refers to an article, book, patent, or other resource within...
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A spoofed URL involves one website masquerading as another, often leveraging vulnerabilities in web browser technology to facilitate a malicious computer...
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Google URL Shortener, also known as goo.gl, is a URL shortening service owned by Google. It was launched in December 2009, initially used for Google Toolbar...
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Address bar (redirect from Url bar)
the address bar (also location bar or URL bar) is the element that shows the current URL. The user can type a URL into it to navigate to a chosen website...
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"URL Badman" is a song by English singer Lily Allen, released on 13 July 2014 as the fourth single from her third studio album, Sheezus (2014). The B-side...
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directly using its URL. But if its URL changes, the publisher must update the metadata for the DOI to maintain the link to the URL. It is the publisher's...
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Domain masking (redirect from URL Masking)
Domain masking or URL masking is the act of hiding the actual domain name of a website from the URL field of a user's web browser in favor of another...
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URI normalization (redirect from Url canonicalization)
algorithm, they were able to find up to 68% of the redundant URIs in a URI list. URL (Uniform Resource Locator) URI fragment Web crawler RFC 3986, Section 6....
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Urlings is a village in Saint Mary, and the twenty-sixth largest settlement in Antigua and Barbuda. Urlings is located in the southwest of Antigua and...
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URI fragment (redirect from URL fragment)
fragment identifier introduced by a hash mark # is the optional last part of a URL for a document. It is typically used to identify a portion of that document...
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Proxy auto-config (redirect from FindProxyForURL)
server (access method) for fetching a given URL. A PAC file contains a JavaScript function FindProxyForURL(url, host). This function returns a string with...
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Permalink (redirect from Permanent URL)
A permalink or permanent link is a URL that is intended to remain unchanged for many years into the future, yielding a hyperlink that is less susceptible...
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Uniform Resource Identifier (redirect from Relative URL)
or an Intranet) are Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). Therefore, URLs are a subset of URIs, ie. every URL is a URI (and not necessarily the other way around)...
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Well-known URI (redirect from Well-known URL)
A well-known URI is a Uniform Resource Identifier for URL path prefixes that start with /.well-known/. They are implemented in webservers so that requests...
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Typosquatting (redirect from URL hijacking)
Typosquatting, also called URL hijacking, a sting site, a cousin domain, or a fake URL, is a form of cybersquatting, and possibly brandjacking which relies...
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Persistent uniform resource locator (redirect from Persistent URL)
persistent uniform resource locator (PURL) is a uniform resource locator (URL) (i.e., location-based uniform resource identifier or URI) that is used to...
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Data URI scheme (redirect from Data: URL)
set (with '+' and '/' as characters 62 and 63) rather than the so-called "URL-safe Base64" character set. Examples of data URIs showing most of the features...
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Blob URI scheme (redirect from Blob URL)
object URL, is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme used for accessing locally generated data via APIs designed to work only with URLs. A blob...
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Vanity domain (redirect from Vanity URL)
sole purpose of having your own domain so you can have an easily remembered URL and e-mail address", while the Jargon File defines it as "An Internet domain...
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Rewrite engine (redirect from Url rewriting)
rewriting on URLs (Uniform Resource Locators), modifying their appearance. This modification is called URL rewriting. It is a way of implementing URL mapping...
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cURL (pronounced like "curl", /kɜːrl/) is a computer software project providing a library (libcurl) and command-line tool (curl) for transferring data...
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engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was...
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