Types of URL (original) (raw)
Last Updated : 23 Jul, 2025
**URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. Any internet location available on the server is called a web URL, web address, or website. Each website or webpage has a unique address called URL. e.g., the website of **geeksforgeeks website has an address or URL called https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/
**Types of URL: URL gives the address of files created for webpages or other documents like an image, pdf for a doc file, etc.
**Type:
- It specifies the type of the server in which the file is located.
- **address: It specifies the address or location of the internet server.
- **path: It specifies the location of the file on the internet server.
- There are two types of URLs:
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**Absolute URL
This type of URL contains both the domain name and directory/page path. An absolute URL gives complete location information. It begins with a protocol like "http://" and continues, including every detail. An absolute URL typically comes with the following syntax.
Syntax:
protocol://domain/path
For web browsing, absolute URLs are types in the address bar of a web browser. For example, if it is related to our project page link on **geeksforgeeks website, the URL should be mentioned as https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/gate/computer-science-projects/ this gives the complete information about the file location path.
**Note: The protocol may be of the following types.
http://, https://, ftp://, gopher://, etc.
**Relative URL
This type of URL contains the path excluding the domain name. Relative means "in relation to", and a relative URL tells a URL location on terms of the current location. Relative path is used for reference to a given link of a file that exist within the same domain.
Let us assume a web developer setting up a webpage and want to link an image called "geeksforgeeks.jpg".
It would internally be interpreted like the following.
The dot(.) before the "/" in the _src attribute is a "special character". It means the location should be started from the current directory to find the file location.