Universal Resource Locator (URL), also known as Uniform Resource Locator, is a technical, Web-related term used in two distinct meanings: In popular usage and many technical documents, it's a synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). In popular usage, it means a web page address. Strictly, it's a compact string of characters for a resource available via the Internet. The idea of a uniform syntax for global identifiers of network-retrievable documents was the core idea of the World Wide… (More on Url)