"N.Arun Kumar" wrote: > > Hello, > Can any one tell me the difference between URI & URL . > If I interchange the two while using in taglib what is the effect.
URI is an acronym for Uniform Resource Identifier, which basically means any old string that uniquely identifies a resource within some name space (following certain format rules defined in RFC 2616). URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator, which is a URI that includes information about the location of the resource, such as the web server name and the protocol used to access the resource. So a URL is a special form of a URI. These two acronyms are used more or less interchangeable in a lot of documents and books, but typically URI is used for things that are used only as a unique symbolic name (without demanding that there's actually a resource behind it) while URL is used for things that identify something "real", such as a file. Hans -- Hans Bergsten [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gefion Software http://www.gefionsoftware.com Author of JavaServer Pages (O'Reilly), http://TheJSPBook.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com
