What is a URL? The address every tap starts with

Lesson 1 of the journey of a tap: the address your phone reads before anything else happens, and the four parts it's made of. Aliteq Sam Ortega · Build Editor

A URL is an address: how to talk, which computer, which thing, and extra instructions

The domain is a human name that still has to be looked up

Anyone can type any URL, so a URL alone never proves who's allowed

If your app has addresses like /orders/42, ask what happens when someone types /orders/43. If they see another customer's order, the server isn't checking who's asking. That's check 3 in the…

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