Rati is doing a course in networking. She is unable to understand the concept of URL. Help her by explaining it with the help of suitable example.

A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a location on a net server. The Internet structure of the World Wide Web is built on a set of rules called Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which uses Internet addresses in a special format called a URL.

URLs look like this : type://address/path, where type: specifies the type of server in which the file is located, address is the address of server, and path tells the location of file on the server.

For example, in the following URL http://encycle.msn.com/getinfo/styles.asp, http: specifies the type of server, encycle.msn.com is the address of server and getinfo/style.asp is the path of the file styles.asp.