About URLs and Name Spaces

About URLs and Name Spaces


A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) follows the syntax described in RFC 1738, which specifies a protocol scheme followed by a scheme-specific portion (<scheme>:<scheme-specific portion>). For example, in the URL http://www.microsoft.com/, "http" is the scheme and "//www.microsoft.com/" is the scheme-specific portion.

The beginning portion of the scheme-specific portion of the URL contains the server name. This portion of the URL is often referred to as the URL name space.

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