Internet - URL

• Uniform Resource Locator

• Locator - not true identifier!

• Access protocol, site, filename

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/report.html

• Consider...

gopher://gopher.bath.ac.uk/00/prospectus/

http://www.bath.ac.uk/Prospectus/

• Can support some movement of resource using HTTP redirects

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