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"the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), later renamed to the Uniform Resource Locator (URL)" Nice resource, but I thought a URL is one form of URI, another bei
by timrichard 5y ago
"the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), later renamed to the Uniform Resource Locator (URL)"
Nice resource, but I thought a URL is one form of URI, another being a URN.
- palsecam 5y agoIt depends on who you ask. -- According to the W3C, it used to be that: > a URI was either a URL or a URN. But now, it’s complicated: > the view became that an individual scheme does not need to be cast into one of a discrete set of URI types such as "URL", "URN" […] > Further according to the contemporary view, the term "URL" does not refer to a formal partition of URI space; rather, URL is a useful but informal concept […] > Thus as we noted, "http:" is a URI scheme. An http URI is a URL. All the above citations from https://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/ https://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/ -- The WHATWG holds a different view: > Standardize on the term URL. URI and IRI are just confusing. […] URL also easily wins the search result popularity contest. From https://url.spec.whatwg.org/ https://url.spec.whatwg.org/ This may be what the author of the article had in mind.
- cryptos 5y agoIn my (humble) opinion only URL makes much sense in the context of the web, since URI could be almost anything addressing something (in the internet or not).