Linking

Sr.No.
Topics
1

Relative Pathnames Vs. Absolute Pathnames
2
 URLs
3
 Links to Specific Sections
4
 Mailto

 

URLs

The World Wide Web uses Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) to specify the location of files on other servers. A URL includes the type of resource being accessed (e.g., Web, gopher, FTP), the address of the server, and the location of the file. The syntax is:

scheme://host.domain [:port]/path/ filename

where scheme is one of

file
a file on your local system
ftp
a file on an anonymous FTP server
http
a file on a World Wide Web server
gopher
a file on a Gopher server
 
news
a Usenet newsgroup
telnet
a connection to a Telnet-based service

The port number can generally be omitted. (That means unless someone tells you otherwise, leave it out.)

There is also a mailto scheme, used to hyperlink email addresses, but this scheme is unique in that it uses only a colon (:) instead of :// between the scheme and the address.