URL (Universal Resource Locator)

The function of the web server hardware and software is to store the web pages and locate and transmit them to a client computer as and when requests for the web pages come in. When we want to download a website, its address is to be specified at the concerned prompt in the browser program. the web site address is called Universal Resource Locator (URL), which is the address of the home page of the website installed on the web server. There is standard format for the web sited address. It has generally  three parts (eg  www.abcd.com) where www is based on the HTTP, the recent addition to the TCP/IP protocol suite; abcd represents the name of the site; and com is the domain name that describes organizational or geographical realities like com, org,  in, au, etc