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Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

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URL is an abbreviation for Uniform Resource Locator. URIs are a unique ‘location’ such as a web address that can be used by a user to retrieve the intended resource.

Formerly, they were called Universal Resource Locators.

Every URL is a URI, but not necessarilly the other way around.

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