Interesting, thank you all for the answers...
However, this still is a bit "foggy" for me...
I will read the documents your guys referenced and try to understand difference...
But does anybody have an example of and URI ?
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> From: Steven Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Subject: Re: URI versus URL
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> > 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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