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http://www.kumquat.com/planting/guide.html#soil_prep
http://www.kumquat.com/find_a_quat?state=Florida
The first example is an explicit reference to a bona fide HTML document
named
catalog.html
that is stored in the root directory of the
www.oreilly.com
server. The second references the top-level home page
on that same server. That home page may or may not be
catalog.html
.
Sample three also assumes that there is a home page in the root direct-
ory of the
www.kumquat.com
server and that the web connection is to
the nonstandard port 8080.
The fourth example is the URL for retrieving the web document named
guide.html
from the
planting
directory on the
www.kumquat.com
serv-
er. Once retrieved, the browser should display the document beginning
at the fragment named
soil_ prep
.
The last example invokes an executable resource named
find_a_quat
with the parameter named
state
set to the value
Florida
. Presumably,
this resource generates an HTML or XHTML response, presumably a new
document about kumquats in Florida that is subsequently displayed by
the browser.
6.2.4. The file URL
The file URL is perhaps the second most common one used, but it is not
readily recognized by web users and particularly web authors. It points
to a file stored on a computer without indicating the protocol used to
retrieve the file. As such, it has limited use in a networked environ-
ment. That's a good thing. The file URL lets you load and display a loc-
ally stored document and is particularly useful for referencing personal
HTML/XHTML document collections, such as those "under construction"
and not yet ready for general distribution, or document collections on
CD-ROM. The file URL has the following format:
file://
server
/
path
