World-Wide Web Browsers

URL (Uniform Resource Locator) Formats:

< protocol>://< host.domain>[:port][/< path>[/< file>]]

file
http
gopher
WAIS
news
telnet

Examples:

     http://info.cs.vt.edu/~chitra
     http://info/~chitra                   <.--Can drop domain!
     ftp://vtopus/Chitra
     gopher://pulua.hcc.hawaii.edu
     news:alt.hypertext

Additional Information:

• A Sample HTML document, and the resulting page as viewed by a browser

• Lesser Known Web Browser Features

• HTML (HyperText Markup Language)