URI vs. URL

Posted on Dec 13 by ack.
Categories: online, web 2.0.

To respond to an implied question masked as a link in my Wordbook article. Uniform Resource Identifier Wiki:

A URI can be classified as a locator or a name or both. A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a URI that, in addition to identifying a resource, provides means of acting upon or obtaining a representation of the resource by describing its primary access mechanism or network “location”. For example, the URL http://www.wikipedia.org/ is a URI that identifies a resource (Wikipedia’s home page) and implies that a representation of that resource (such as the home page’s current HTML code, as encoded characters) is obtainable via HTTP from a network host named www.wikipedia.org.

So basically, a URL is a URI that includes the “http://”.

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