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Uniform Resource Locators

I assume that most readers of this Guide are already familiar with the construction of Uniform Resource Locators, and in any case, there's not much I could say about URLs that hasn't been said better by someone else. For a good introduction, see NCSA's URL Primer (which is often very busy, so keep trying), or WWW Names and Addresses, URIs, URLs, URNs