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GCSE Computer Science · key term
A Uniform Resource Locator: an address identifying a resource, such as a web page, and how to access it.
Used by OCR
Paper 1
Revise: The Internet and CloudA URL is the address of a resource. In the URL
https://example.org/news,example.orgis the domain name and/newsidentifies the requested resource. When describing DNS as converting a URL to an IP address, it is the domain-name part that is looked up, not the page's path.
For DNS, state that the domain name in the URL is looked up and the corresponding IP address is returned. DNS does not send the web page itself.
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