"I" for Identifiers. Refer RFC 2396 (URI) and RFC 1738 (URL) for details.
Norman
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Subject: Re: URI versus URL
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Maxime Poulin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 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 ?
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.
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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