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HTML Uniform Resource Locators
	URL is another word for web address, can be composed of words, or an Internet Protocol (IP) address (192.68.20.50)-->

URL Uniform Resource Locator
	web browsers request pages from web servers by using a URL, which is used to address a document (or other data) on the web

	https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp follows syntax rules scheme://prefix.domain:port/path/filename

	Explanation:
	*scheme - defines the type of Internet service (http/https most common)
	*prefix - defines a domain prefix (default for http is www)
	*domain - defines the Internet domain name (like w3schools.com)
	*port - defines the port number at the host (default for http is 80)
	*path - defines a pth at the server (If omitted: the root directory of the site)
	*filename - defines the name of a document or resource-->

Common URL Schemes
Scheme 	Short for 							Used for
http 	HyperText Transfer Protocol			Common web pgs. Not encrypted
https 	Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol	Secure web pages. Encrypted
ftp 	File Transfer Protocol				Downloading/uploading files
file 										A file on your computer

URL Encoding
URLs can only be sent over the Internet using the ASCII character-set. URL contains characters outside the ASCII set, the URL has to be converted.