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The title of the post & the underlying SO article discuss URLs. A data: URI is not a URL, but a URI. People get confused about this all the time, but a URI is
by cek 14y ago
The title of the post & the underlying SO article discuss URLs. A data: URI is not a URL, but a URI.
People get confused about this all the time, but a URI is not necessarily a URL. A URL is always a URI. A URN is also a URI and might be a URL as well.[0]
Interesting side note is how, in 1997, with the original uuid: draft[1] I goofed and didn't recognize uuid: was really a URN. This was corrected in RFC 4122 in 2005[2].
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_identifier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_identifier
[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kindel-uuid-uri-00 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kindel-uuid-uri-00
[2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt
- jpswade 14y agoThe data URI scheme is defined in RFC 2397. See: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2397 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2397 Entitled as 'The "data" URL scheme'. Either way, it doesn't matter, because the OP has provided such limited details as to why this is required knowledge that the question is as irrelevant as the accepted answer.