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Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians
by Eric H. Schnell
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Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) |
To specify the location of a Internet resource Uniform Resource
Locators, or URL, are used. URLs inform the browser the type of access protocol
to be used, the Internet domain address of the server, and the filepath / filename
of the resource. URLs are by their nature absolute pathnames. The standard syntax of a URL is:
protocoltype://host.domain(:port)/directory(/subdirectory)/filename.extension
or for this page:
http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/papers/primer/url.html
The protocols, or servertype, supported in the protocoltype section
of the syntax include:
- ftp: an anonymous ftp server
- gopher: a Gopher server
- http: a Web server
- news: a News server
- telnet: a Telnet-based server
- mailto: to send electronic mail message
Using a hypertext reference/URL combination, the following
HTML coding will
create a hypertext link to this Primer:
<A HREF ="http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/papers/
primer/webdocs.html"> Writing for the Web: A Primer
for Librarians</A>
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