What is a URL/URI?
Channel: internet-class
Date: 2016-09-23

Many (but not all) of the human names that we use on the internet are either URLs or URIs. URLs are uniform resource locators, a subset of the more general uniform resource identifier (URI). Whether you are using them to identify a web page or a Git repository, URIs have a common format.

Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).

Part of the https://www.internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.