Matrix Networks And Solutions - Difference between URL and URI

While surfing the internet or checking any website, you may have encountered the words "URI" and "URL" multiple times. These are the two important concepts of web and are mostly used interchangeably.

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What is URI?


A URI or Uniform Resource Identifier is a string identifier that refers to a resource on the internet. It is a string of characters that is used to identify any resource on the internet using location, name, or both.

A URI has two subsets; URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and URN (Uniform Resource Number). If it contains only a name, it means it is not a URL. Instead of directly URI, we mostly see the URL and URN in the real world.



URI vs URL

A URI contains scheme, authority, path, query, and a fragment. Some most common URI schemes are HTTPHTTPsftp, Idap, telnet, etc.




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