A Uniform Resource Locator, or URL, is defined for our purposes in this question

Question

A Uniform Resource Locator, or URL, is defined for our purposes in this questions as having three parts: a protocol specification, a host name, and a path name. The path name is optional. The protocol specification is a sequence of three or more letters followed by a colon. The host name is a sequence of one or more sequences of letters, numbers or underscores that are separated by a dot The path name, if present, is a sequence of names, where a name is a sequence of one or more letters, numbers, underscores, or dots. All of the names in the path name are separated from the other names in the path name by a slash character. The protocol specification is separated from the host name by two slashes. The host name is separated from the path name, if it is present, by a slash.

Explanation / Answer

Consider the following URL:

https://www.chegg.com/homework-help/expertquestion

In the given URL, https is the protocol specification. https stands for "hypertext transfer protocol with security".

www.chegg.com is the host name and

homework-help/expertquestion is the path which allows user to go directly to the section they want to visit.

Hope it helps, feel free to comment in case of any query.

Related Questions

Navigate

• Browse (All)
• Browse A
• Subjects

---

---

Integrity-first tutoring: explanations and feedback only — we do not complete graded work. Learn more.