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...

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...

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...

Clean URLs (also known as user-friendly URLs, pretty URLs, search-engine–friendly URLs or RESTful URLs) are web addresses or Uniform Resource Locators...

TinyURL is a URL shortening web service, which provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A spoofed URL involves one website masquerading as another, often leveraging vulnerabilities in web browser technology to facilitate a malicious computer...

rewriting on URLs (Uniform Resource Locators), modifying their appearance. This modification is called URL rewriting. It is a way of implementing URL mapping...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

for favorite icon), also known as a shortcut icon, website icon, tab icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon, is a file containing one or more small icons associated...

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...

persistent uniform resource locator (PURL) is a uniform resource locator (URL) (i.e., location-based uniform resource identifier or URI) that is used to...

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...

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...

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...

Search/Retrieve via URL (SRU) is a standard search protocol for Internet search queries, utilizing Contextual Query Language (CQL), a standard query syntax...

URL Coffee is a coffee shop in Seattle's First Hill neighborhood, in the U.S. state of Washington. The business has been owned by Ethan Choi and Zoey...

under two circumstances: To ask a web browser to load a different web page (URL redirection). In this circumstance, the Location header should be sent with...

Bitly is a URL shortening service and a link management platform. The company Bitly, Inc. was established in 2008. It is privately held and based in New...

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...

server (access method) for fetching a given URL. A PAC file contains a JavaScript function FindProxyForURL(url, host). This function returns a string with...

Urchin Tracking Module (UTM) parameters are five variants of URL parameters used by marketers to track the effectiveness of online marketing campaigns...

query strings. A geo URI is not to be confused with the former website of GeoURL (which had implemented ICBM addresses). A simple geo URI might look like:...