URI

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier.

A UNI is a way to identify (or address) a name or resource over a network. A URI is expressed as a short string.

A URI takes the form of a URN or a URL, and is expressed as a text string of the form:

    protocol://domain-name/pathname

Where protocol is any valid protocol, such as http, ftp, gopher etc.

For more information see:

• http://everything.explained.at/Uniform_Resource_Identifier/ - URIs explained.