Uniform Resource Identifier

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
 ftp://example.org/resource.txt
 issn1535-3613
 mailto:somebody@someplace.com

Category:Internet standards