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Links can also refer to any other documents on the Web.
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For example, suppose that we want to include references to other information about rugs.
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The Oriental Rug Company is a member of the
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<a href="http://www.unusualrugs.org/general/index.html"> Oriental Rug Consortium </a>, an organization devoted to identifying and preserving sources of Oriental rugs.
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The string of characters in the HREF field is called a Uniform Resource Locator or URL. It provides a unique way of locating any document on the Internet. Server types include http, ftp, gopher, WAIS, news, telnet.
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Note that in the above example, the URL could also be given as http://www.unusualrugs.org/general/
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