Uniform Resource Locator

Name	Used for	Example
http	Hypertext(HTML)	http://www.cse.iitb.ernet.in/ $\hspace{0.05in}\sim$sri/
ftp	FTP	ftp://ftp.cc.iitb.ernet.in/pub/unix/README
file	Local file	/usr/fac/sri/prog.c
news	News group	news:comp.std.unix
news	News article	news:EL8Gur.x4@bhishma.cse.iitb.ernet.in
gopher	Gopher	gopher://gopher.tc.umn.edu/11/Libraries
mailto	Sending email	mailto:siva@cse.iitb.ernet.in
telnet	Remote login	telnet://www.w3.org:80

• Browser hides different protocols
• No need to learn mail/ftp/telnet etc.