A URL is known to be another word for a web address.

A URL can consists of words (ngo.com), or an Internet Protocol (IP) address (192.68.20.50).

Most people prefer to enter the name during surfing, as names are much easier to remember than numbers.

Web browsers will be requesting pages from web servers by means of a URL.

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is used for addressing a document (or other data) on the web.

A web address, like http://hexagonitsolutions.com/ngo/html_home.php are also following these syntax rules:

Explanation:

• scheme - used to define the type of Internet service (most common is http or https)
• prefix - used to define a domain prefix (default for http is www)
• domain - used to define the Internet domain name (like NGO.com)
• port - used to define the port number at the host (default for http is 80)
• path - used to define a path at the server (If omitted: the root directory of the site)
• filename - used to define the name of a document or resource

The table below lists some common schemes:

URLs are sent over the Internet by using the ASCII character-set only. Incase a URL consists of characters outside the ASCII set, the URL should be converted.

URL encoding is used to convert non-ASCII characters into a format which can be transmitted over the Internet.

URL encoding helps in replacing non-ASCII characters with a "%" followed by hexadecimal digits.

URLs do not hve spaces. URL encoding usually replaces a space with a plus (+) sign, or %20.

Try It Yourself

If you click "Submit", the browser will URL encode the input before it is sent to the server.

A page at the server will display the received input.

Try some other input and click Submit again.

Your browser will manage toencode input, depending upon the character-set used in your page.

The default character-set in HTML5 is inown to be UTF-8.

For a complete reference of all URL encodings, visit our URL Encoding Reference.