Absolute URLs

https://www.example.com/about/images/profile.png

An absolute URL contains all of the protocols and information for the file’s location. If I am the owner of www.another-example.com and I want to link to “profile.png” I will need it’s absolute URL (https://www.example.com/about/images/profile.png) as it lives on a separate site than mine.

We can compare this to needing to know the city, street, building, and apartment number of “profile.png” because we live in a different part of town.

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I'm coming from the city of Another-Example.com, so I need the full address to any files in Example.com!

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