URI

Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW

RFC 1630 Tim Berners-Lee June 1994
"A Unifying Syntax for the Expression of Names and Addresses of Objects on the Network as used in the World-Wide Web." An informational document describing the all-encompassing URI.

URI Spec.

A hypertext version of RFC 1630. From the W3C.

URL

IANA registered URL schemes

Lists the recognized schemes and indicates which RFC defines the syntax for each.

Relative URLs

(34950 bytes) RFC1808 by R. Fielding, June 1995
"Specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements....A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a compact representation of the location and access method for a resource available via the Internet." Defines relative URLs and gives their structure.

Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)

RFC 1938 by Tim Berners-Lee Dec. 1994
"This document specifies a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), the syntax and semantics of formalized information for location and access of resources via the Internet."

URL Spec.

From the W3C.

Collections

WWW Names and Addresses, URIs, URLs, URNs, URCs

"Addressing is one of the fundamental technologies in the web. URLs, or Uniform Resouce Locators, are the technology for addressing documents on the web. It is an extensible technology: there are a number of existing addressing schemes, and more may be incorporated over time." Has definitions, specifications, and more. From the W3C.

URN

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