Uniform Resource Identifier
string of characters used to identify a name of a resource on a network such as the internet
In computing, a Uniform Resource Identifier is something used to name something on the Internet. URIs are similar to URLs, because they are the name of something.
Examples of URIs include:
- https://example.org/absolute/URI/with/absolute/path/to/resource.txt[permanent dead link]
- ftp://example.org/resource.txt[permanent dead link]
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