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  2. URL - Wikipedia

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    A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), [2] [3] although many people use the two terms interchangeably. [4] [a] URLs occur most commonly to reference web pages ( HTTP / HTTPS) but are also used for file transfer ( FTP ), email ( mailto ), database access ( JDBC ), and many other applications.

  3. List of HTTP status codes - Wikipedia

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    For example, the client uploads an image as image/svg+xml, but the server requires that images use a different format. 416 Range Not Satisfiable The client has asked for a portion of the file (byte serving), but the server cannot supply that portion. For example, if the client asked for a part of the file that lies beyond the end of the file.

  4. Site map - Wikipedia

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    Site map. A sitemap is a list of pages of a web site within a domain . There are three primary kinds of sitemap: Sitemaps used during the planning of a website by its designers. Human-visible listings, typically hierarchical, of the pages on a site. Structured listings intended for web crawlers such as search engines.

  5. Query string - Wikipedia

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    Query string. A query string is a part of a uniform resource locator (URL) that assigns values to specified parameters. A query string commonly includes fields added to a base URL by a Web browser or other client application, for example as part of an HTML document, choosing the appearance of a page, or jumping to positions in multimedia content.

  6. HTML - Wikipedia

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    HTML. HyperText Markup Language ( HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It defines the content and structure of web content. It is often assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript .

  7. Percent-encoding - Wikipedia

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    Percent-encoding. URL encoding, officially known as percent-encoding, is a method to encode arbitrary data in a uniform resource identifier (URI) using only the US-ASCII characters legal within a URI. Although it is known as URL encoding, it is also used more generally within the main Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) set, which includes both ...

  8. Web query - Wikipedia

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    Web query. A web query or web search query is a query that a user enters into a web search engine to satisfy their information needs. Web search queries are distinctive in that they are often plain text and boolean search directives are rarely used. They vary greatly from standard query languages, which are governed by strict syntax rules as ...

  9. Anchor text - Wikipedia

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    The phrase "academic search engines" is the anchor text in the hyperlink that the cursor is pointing to. The anchor text, link label or link text is the visible, clickable text in an HTML hyperlink. The term "anchor" was used in older versions of the HTML specification [1] for what is currently referred to as the a element, or <a>. [2]