> On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Maxime Poulin wrote:
> > I've been seeing in some servlet books the term URI which
> > was not to be misinterpreted as URL... Could someone explain me what
> > is a URI, and the difference between a URI and a URL ?
Milt Epstein ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> Reading the comments in the JSDK source files (or their javadocs), it
> looks like the way they use it, URL is the entire thing with scheme,
> server, and port, while URI is only the stuff after that.
>
> IIRC, "URL" is "Uniform Resource Locator". Not sure what the 'I' in
> "URI" is.
Off the top of my head I seem to recall that it's Uniform
Resource Identifier. A URL is a specific kind of URI. Don't quote me
on that, tho, go read the spec at www.w3c.org. If you can *find* the
spec at w3c.org. Am I the only one who has trouble finding any
relevant information on *any* topic at that site?
http://www.w3.org/Addressing/ seems to clear it up:
"Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs, aka URLs) are short strings that
identify resources in the web: documents, images, downloadable files,
services, electronic mailboxes, and other resources. They make
resources available under a variety of naming schemes and access
methods such as HTTP, FTP, and Internet mail addressable in the same
simple way. They reduce the tedium of "log in to this server, then
issue this magic command ..." down to a single click."
Also seems to be lots of other good discussion of these topics
there, URNs, URCs etc.
Steven J. Owens
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