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URL’s Anatomy
1.02 Understand how to validate,
authenticate, and legally use
information from the Internet.
Finding information is easy
….but
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How can you validate information
obtained from the Internet and
determine if it is authentic?
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Two measures of web page validity are
the URL and the content.
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This presentation discusses the URL
What do you know about the
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)?
Protocol
Extension
Directory/folder
http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/directory/staff.html
Server/Host Name
Country
code
Page/Document/
Filename
Domain
Name
1.02 Understand how to validate, authenticate, and legally use information from the Internet.
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URL’s Anatomy
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Protocol determines how the file will be
transferred (in whole or in part).
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Examples: http and ftp
Domain name includes the name of the
server where the information is stored and a
suffix (also called an extension) which
indicates the type and location of the server.
1.02 Understand how to validate, authenticate, and legally use information from the Internet.
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Know your suffixes/extensions
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Do you know what
these suffixes indicate?
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.com
.edu
.gov
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.org
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.net
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.mil
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What about these?
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.uk
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.au
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.ca
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.de
1.02 Understand how to validate, authenticate, and legally use information from the Internet.
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Suffixes/Extensions
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Types of servers:
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Country and State
codes:
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.com – commercial
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.edu - educational
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.uk – United Kingdom
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.gov - government
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.au - Australia
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.org - organizational
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.ca - California
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.net - network
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.de - Delaware
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.mil - military
1.02 Understand how to validate, authenticate, and legally use information from the Internet.
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URL’s Anatomy (Continued)
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A directory tells the computer specifically
where to look for the requested information
on the file server.
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A filename tells which specific document or
program should be retrieved from the
directory.
1.02 Understand how to validate, authenticate, and legally use information from the Internet.
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URL’S Appendages
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Other parts of an URL may include
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~ (tilde) indicates a personal web page
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.exe or .hqx indicates an executable program
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= (equals) indicates a specific document or
program
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Question mark (?) indicates that the web server
will perform a query
1.02 Understand how to validate, authenticate, and legally use information from the Internet.
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