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URLs on the WWW

A URL is a unique name that identifies a web page.

 Protocol/Method	What it stands for
     http               Hypertext Transport Protocol 
    gopher              Gopher
     ftp                File Transfer Protocol
     news               Internet News Protocol (Usenet)
    telnet              Telnet

Examples:

http://www.umdnj.edu:80/umdnj.html
news:umdnj.comm.remote-access
telnet://rwjcam.umdnj.edu

For more information about decoding URLs, read this web page:
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/International/O-URL.html