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At the risk of prolonging an unnecessary digression (the analogy was brought up by the parent), I still don't believe a public URL in itself contains a path. In
by r0h1n 13y ago
At the risk of prolonging an unnecessary digression (the analogy was brought up by the parent), I still don't believe a public URL in itself contains a path. In fact it's quite possible that some URLs may never lead to a valid path depending on the starting address. Paths are only inferred or drawn up during traversal.
I wouldn't mind being proven wrong though, preferably with an example.
- gamblor956 13y agoThe W3 itself describes a URL as a path: 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.