Hai any one having idea that what will the use of :// in the http://www.abc.com.
Where http stands for hypertext transfer protocol.
www.abc.com refers the address. What will be the use of ://


Looking fwd for your answeres.
Thanks
élan.J

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Originally Posted by elandirayan

what will be the use of ://

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The notation separates the resource type, HTTP in your example, from the path to the resource, www.abc.com in your example, in Uniform Resource Locator syntax. The example you used has an implied /filename at the end of it like so: http://www.abc.com/filename. The default filename used by HTTP servers depends on the specific server software used as well as the configuration of the server.

Also, External websites have forward slashes -> //
And internal websites and shared folders have 2 back slashes \\

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http:// usually specifies a default port which in this case ia 80.

So http://www.abc.com is also the same as www.abc.com:80.