# useRequestURL
> Access the incoming request URL with the useRequestURL composable.
`useRequestURL` is a helper function that returns an [URL object](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/URL) working on both server-side and client-side.
When utilizing [Hybrid Rendering](/docs/4.x/guide/concepts/rendering#hybrid-rendering) with cache strategies, all incoming request headers are dropped when handling the cached responses via the [Nitro caching layer](https://nitro.build/guide/cache) (meaning `useRequestURL` will return `localhost` for the `host`).
You can define the [`cache.varies` option](https://nitro.build/guide/cache#options) to specify headers that will be considered when caching and serving the responses, such as `host` and `x-forwarded-host` for multi-tenant environments.
```vue [app/pages/about.vue]
URL is: {{ url }}
Path is: {{ url.pathname }}
```
```html [Result in development]
URL is: http://localhost:3000/about
Path is: /about
```
Read about the URL instance properties on the MDN documentation.
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- [Source](https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/blob/main/packages/nuxt/src/app/composables/url.ts)