Internet Shortcut
Unknownother
The Microsoft Internet Shortcut format (URL file format) is built upon a plain text file and adopts an "INI" or configuration file style 'section + key-pair' format, to provide machine-readable structure to describe a method of accessing a web page or website. The format enables the encapsulation of the information needed to connect to a website in a file-based object, which can be distributed or saved elsewhere on the user's hard-disk, for example, in enabling bookmarking of web-sites as a user's favorites. The Microsoft Internet Shortcut format included features such as hotkey instructions, allowing users to make use of a combination of keys on a keyboard to launch a website. The association of the '*.url' file-format extension with a web-browser application enabled double-clicking of the file object to launch a website.
Identify it
| Extensions | .url |
|---|---|
| MIME types | application/internet-shortcutapplication/x-urltext/urltext/x-urlwwwserver/redirectiontext/plainapplication/x-mswinurl |
| PRONOM | x-fmt/454 |
| Wikidata | Q28758114 |
Not sure your file is this? Identify it from its first bytes, in your browser.
Open it
No software is recorded for this format.
Convert it
No conversion recorded. One of the tools above may export it; search for a chain.
0Sources
From Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-24.