The Uniform Resource Locator was created in 1994[2] by Tim Berners-Lee and the URI working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force.[3] The format is based on Unix file path syntax, where forward slashes are used to separate directory or folder and file or resource names. Conventions already existed where server names could be prepended to complete file paths, preceded by a double-slash (//).[4]
File formats may also be specified using a final dot suffix, so that requests for file.html or file.txt may be served directly whereas file.php needs to be sent to a PHP pre-processor before the processed result is served to the end user. The exposure of such implementation-specific details in public URLs is becoming less common;[5] the necessary information can be better specified and exchanged using Internet media type identifiers, previously known as MIME types.
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File formats may also be specified using a final dot suffix, so that requests for file.html or file.txt may be served directly whereas file.php needs to be sent to a PHP pre-processor before the processed result is served to the end user. The exposure of such implementation-specific details in public URLs is becoming less common;[5] the necessary information can be better specified and exchanged using Internet media type identifiers, previously known as MIME types.
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