Imbolchottie@AOL.COM on sun 30 nov 03
Mel - Some folks are asking me how to get to the Yahoo home page where I
posted the photos. I guess everyone has a different door to Clay art; when I want
to sit down and read individual messages I go to the Yahoo home page and
start with the messages, then I scroll through them to see who has been posting
and what the current threads are.
Could you tell me, and others, what the url is -- yes I am 'Technically
Challenged' and currently writing the book Technically Challenged and Learning to
Live with It.
Many thanks, Jonathan in LA
Clean laundry means I get studio time, so I'm off.
Gail Phillips on sun 30 nov 03
Hi -
Here is the full techno-geek-speak answer for what is a URL:
A URL (Uniform Resource Locator, previously Universal Resource Locator) =
-
pronounced YU-AHR-EHL or, in some quarters, UHRL - is the address of a =
file
(resource) accessible on the Internet. The type of file or resource =
depends
on the Internet application protocol. Using the World Wide Web's =
protocol,
the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), the resource can be an HTML page
(like the one you're reading), an image file, a program such as a common
gateway interface application or Java applet, or any other file =
supported by
HTTP. The URL contains the name of the protocol required to access the
resource, a domain name that identifies a specific computer on the =
Internet,
and a pathname (hierarchical description of a file location) on the
computer.=20
On the Web (which uses the Hypertext Transfer Protocol), an example of a =
URL
is:=20
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
which describes a Web page to be accessed with an HTTP (Web browser)
application that is located on a computer named www.ietf.org. The =
pathname
for the specific file in that computer is /rfc/rfc2396.txt.=20
An HTTP URL can be for any Web page, not just a home page, or any =
individual
file.=20
A URL for a program such as a forms-handling common gateway interface =
script
written in Perl might look like this:=20
http://whatis.com/cgi-bin/comments.pl
A URL for a file meant to be downloaded would require that the "ftp"
protocol be specified like this one:=20
ftp://www.somecompany.com/whitepapers/widgets.ps
This came from http://whatis.com, which is an excellent resource for all
things computer.
That is the long answer for: it is the webpage's address.
- Gail Phillips
>Could you tell me, and others, what the url is -- yes I am 'Technically
>Challenged' and currently writing the book Technically Challenged and
>Learning to
>Live with It.
>Many thanks, Jonathan in LA
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