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 M¢25  Funded By Mahalo ? |  June 25, 2009 06:50 PM

What's the difference between a URL and a URI?

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June 25, 2009 07:35 PM | view on twitter
This is a bit erroneous without an in-depth knowledge of the underlying principles. The term URI is technical and can be used to describe a variety of things making it hard to explain without an exact context.

A URI (uniform resource identifier) is made up a URL (uniform resource location) and a URN (uniform resource name).

A URL is a location.

A URN describes a resource.

So, a URI identifies both a location and a resource. A URI tells you where to go and describes what you might find there.

A good example of a URL is:
http://www.mahalo.com/

A good example of a URI is:
http://www.mahao.com/robbrown

Notice that the URI tells you both where to go (the URL) and what is there (the directory).
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June 25, 2009 07:32 PM | view on twitter
My take is Uniform Resource Identifier(URI) is a superset include Uniform Resource Locators(URL)'s and extensions. Here is the official document from the World Wide Web Consortium(W3C).
Source(s):
http://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/


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