THE WHATIS.COM WORD-OF-THE-DAY February 24, 2004 URL ______________________ SPONSORED BY: Career Center
Visit the whatis.com Career Center powered by Dice and find new jobs being added every day with thousands of positions to choose from. Receive automatic e-mails when a listing matches your criteria and have your profile automatically sent to Dice.com member companies. Get the career resources you need to set yourself apart from other job seekers. Visit today! http://whatis.techtarget.com/dice/0,294542,sid9,00.html?track=NL-34&Offer=dicewhtssur1 ______________________ TODAY'S WORD: URL See our complete definition with hyperlinks at http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci213251,00.html?track=NL-34 A URL (Uniform Resource Locator, previously Universal Resource Locator) - pronounced YU-AHR-EHL or, in some quarters, UHRL - is the unique address for a file that is accessible on the Internet. A common way to get to a Web site is to enter the URL of its home page file in your Web browser's address line. However, any file within that Web site can also be specified with a URL. Such a file might be any Web (HTML) page other than the home page, an image file, or a program such as a common gateway interface application or Java applet. The URL contains the name of the protocol to be used to access the file resource, a domain name that identifies a specific computer on the Internet, and a pathname, a hierarchical description that specifies the location of a file in that computer. On the Web (which uses the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP), an example of a URL is: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt which describes a text file or page to be accessed with an HTTP (Web browser) application that is located on a computer named www.ietf.org. The pathname for the specific file in that computer is /rfc/rfc2396.txt. A URL for a particular image on a Web site might look like this: http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/WhatIs/images/coaxla.gif A URL for a file meant to be downloaded using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) would require that the "ftp" protocol be specified like this hypothetical URL: ftp://www.somecompany.com/whitepapers/widgets.ps A URL is a type of URI (Uniform Resource Identifier, formerly called Universal Resource Identifier.) _________________________ RELATED TERMS: common gateway interface http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid13_gci213846,00.html?track=NL-34 applet http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci211580,00.html?track=NL-34 domain name http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci211988,00.html?track=NL-34 FTP http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci213976,00.html?track=NL-34 URI http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci214160,00.html?track=NL-34 ______________________ SELECTED LINKS: Uniform Resource Locators were originally described in IETF Request for Comments 1738. http://www.w3.org/Addressing/rfc1738.txt The Uniform Resource Identifier Generic Syntax is described in Request for Comments 2396. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt The World Wide Web Consortium's Architecture Domain provides more information about "Naming and Addressing: URIs, URLs, ..." http://www.w3.org/Addressing/ ______________________ TODAY'S TECH NEWS: With VoIP, Zultys makes every office the home office Zultys' new VoIP add-on can make remote offices seem like a single office to callers. An analyst says the offering proves that smaller VoIP vendors can successfully challenge the likes of Cisco. http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid7_gci951818,00.html?track=NL-34 NetPro tool tracks Active Directory changes New software announced this week by NetPro will act like a sleuth for Microsoft's Active Directory. It will solve the "whodunit" when changes are made. http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid1_gci951813,00.html?track=NL-34 PeopleSoft proxy mailing urges investors to reject Oracle PeopleSoft has fired off a letter to shareholders that makes its case for remaining an independent company. http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid11_gci951787,00.html?track=NL-34 >> Catch up on all the latest IT news at http://searchtechtarget.techtarget.com?track=NL-34 ______________________ SECRET WORD-OF-THE-DAY | What is IT? Around Pooh Corner, this is a type of container that might get stuck on the nose of a certain bear. On the Internet, it's a computer system set up to attract and "trap" people who attempt to penetrate other people's computer systems. Do you think you know the Secret Word? Click to see if you're right! http://searchcio.techtarget.com/gDefinition/0,294236,sid19_gci551721,00.html?track=NL-34 ______________________ QUIZ #10 | TCP/IP How much do you know about TCP/IP? Take our quiz and find out! http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid19_gci756391,00.html?track=NL-34 ______________________ HOROSCOPES FOR GEEKS | February Find out what the stars have in store for you the rest of this month! http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid19_gci919205,00.html?track=NL-34 ______________________ WORDS-TO-GO | Wireless Mobile computing has its own vocabulary. We've created a glossary to help you stay on top of new terms. If you have a Palm OS or PocketPC device, you can download a PDA version of this handy reference. http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid40_gci947525,00.html?track=NL-34 ______________________________ RECENT ADDITIONS AND UPDATES [1] rehoming http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid43_gci950748,00.html?track=NL-34 [2] ArchiveSink http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid43_gci950718,00.html?track=NL-34 [3] entity-relationship model http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid13_gci949503,00.html?track=NL-34 [4] conformance http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid19_gci948606,00.html?track=NL-34 [5] binder http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid1_gci948478,00.html?track=NL-34 ____________________________________________________________________ ::::::::::::::::::: WHATIS.COM CONTACTS ::::::::::::::::::: MARGARET ROUSE, Site Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IVY WIGMORE, Consulting Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) LOWELL THING, Consulting Editor and Founder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) GABRIELLE DERUSSY, Advertising ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ::::::::::::::::::::: ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER :::::::::::::::::::::: This e-newsletter is published by WhatIs.com, a targeted Web site from TechTarget, the most targeted IT media and events company. 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