Web addresses are URLs, Uniform Resource Locators. A closer look at an http URL:
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/it/eval.html ^ ^ ^ | | path on that server | server (host) name access method
The "path on that server" is most commonly a file name, where the file type describes the kind of information in the file.
On UO Computing Center systems, many people publish files in a special subdirectory of their home directory. In this case, it's common to see URLs like:
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jqj/index.html
Within HTML documents, one often uses "partial" URLs, relative to the document they appear in:
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base URL |
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jqj/pub-intro/web.html |
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partial URL |
html1.html |
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full equiv |
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~jqj/pub-intro/html1.html |
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