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Uniform Resource Locators - the paths of the Internet

Whenever a parameter requests to put a file as its value, you can specify an URL (Uniform Resource Locator, one of those http:// things) too. It just depends of the location of the file. The components of an URL are the following:

The protocol name used to access the element/page, usually "http://"
The server's name, like "www.oocities.org"
The path to the element inside the server, like "/SiliconValley/Park/4530/"
The file name of the element/page itself.

So, are you able to identify the parts of this URL: http://www.oocities.org/SiliconValley/Park/4530/index.html?

How to specify a file name in the parameters:

If you want to reference a file in the same directory, you can leave the protocol name, server name and path out and put just its file name.
If the file is in the same server/system, but in a different directory, you can put a relative path to it, specifying the directory's name together with the file name, like "/pub/homestead/welcome.html"
If the file is in another server/system, you have to put the entire URL, with protocol name, server name, directory, and file name, all together.

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