Uniform Resource Identifier
defined in RFC 2396
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a subset of URI
Example: http://localhost:8080/servlet/Hello
- http - protocol
- localhost - host
- 8080 - port
- /servlet/Hello - resource on server
Some common examples (from the spec)
- ftp://ftp.is.co.za/rfc/rfc1808.txt
-- ftp scheme for File Transfer Protocol services
- http://www.math.uio.no/faq/compression-faq/part1.html
-- http scheme for Hypertext Transfer Protocol services
- mailto:mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch
-- mailto scheme for electronic mail addresses
- news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
-- news scheme for USENET news groups and articles
- telnet://melvyl.ucop.edu/
-- telnet scheme for interactive services via the TELNET Protocol
